Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Old Age

Quotes about: Old Age

• When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Age, Young, Prudence

• A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fall, Men, Years

• The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Age, Old Age

• Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wrinkles, Age, Dresses

• We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love Life, Age, Dread

  "Les Caractères", XI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 12-17, 1922.

• The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Age, Becoming, Certain

• We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain.
  [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Age, Able, Not Sure

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