“Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.”
Book i. Stanza 25.
The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1771)
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“In every age and clime we see
Two of a trade can never agree.”
Fable XXI, "The Rat-catcher and Cats". Comparable to: "Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet", Hesiod, Works and Days, 24; "Le potier au potier porte envie" (translated: "The potter envies the potter"), Bohn, Handbook of Proverbs; also in Arthur Murphy, The Apprentice, act iii
Fables (1727)
“God is one, but He is worshipped in different ages and climes under different names and aspects.”
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 458
Context: In a potter's shop there are vessels of different shapes and forms — pots, jars, dishes, plates, etc., — but all are made of the same clay. So God is one, but He is worshipped in different ages and climes under different names and aspects.
“[Old age] never comes alone.”
Monosticha http://www.gottwein.de/Grie/menand/monost_a.php (491).
“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
“Old age is the harbor of all ills.”
Bion, 47.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy
“Old age is the harbor of all ills.”
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, iv. 48.
As quoted in Teacher's Treasury of Stories for Every Occasion (1958) by Millard Dale Baughman, p. 69
1950s