Age Quote by Francois La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Funny Old age
As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we who quit them — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Little minds are too much hurt by little things; great minds are quite conscious of them and despise them — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence makes us hesitate at… — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.” — François La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?"… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share
