Asks Quote by R. S. Thomas

“Of all men, only those who find time for philosophy are at leisure; only they are truly alive; for it is not only their…

— Seneca

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early…

— Epicurus

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“even in the quieter professions, there is a toil and a labour of the mind, if not of the body, which seldom leaves a…

— Jane Austen

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last…

— Tryon Edwards

“Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it. We…

— Albert Camus

“And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.”

— William Wordsworth

Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the…

— Isaac Asimov

“There comes a time in one’s life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.”

— Fennel Hudson

“The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of…

— Horace

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

— David Berlinski