Age Quote by Henry James Byron

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

— Winston Churchill

“In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once.”

— Edith Wharton

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.

— Edith Wharton

“Most of us spend the first six days of the week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for…

— Angela Roquet

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

— Richard Le Gallienne

gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

— May Sarton

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

— Sophie Swetchine

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.

— James Thomas Fields

“...his genius, during his earlier manhood, was of that exclusively agricultural character which applies itself to the cultivation of wild oats.”

— Anonymous

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

— Sir John Davies

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

— Philip Roth