Thomas Browne Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

  Thomas Browne

  Wrinkles, Envy, Age

  Sir Thomas Browne (1716). “Christian Morals”, p.10

• And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

  Thomas Browne

  Taken, Men, Years

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc”, p.79

• Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example.

  Thomas Browne

  Age, Example, Century

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.169

• Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

  Thomas Browne

  Age, Habit, Rectify

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4”, p.61

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