“Whoever avoids marriage and the sorrows that women cause, and will not wed, reaches deadly old age without anyone to tend his years.”

— Hesiod

Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 603.

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Ὅς κε γάμον φεύγων καὶ μέρμερα ἔργα γυναικῶν μὴ γῆμαι ἐθέλῃ, ὀλοὸν δ᾽ ἐπὶ γῆρας ἵκοιτο χήτεϊ γηροκόμοιο.

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Hesiod 61

Greek poet

Stanley Lombardo (1943) Philosopher, Classicist

Theogony, lines 607–609
Translations, Works and Days and Theogony (1993)

“You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

“Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 46

“There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

"A First Word"
A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934)

“The best age for a guerrilla fighter varies between 25 and 35 years, a stage in which the life of most persons has assumed definite shape. Whoever sets out at that age, abandoning his home, his children, and his entire world must have thought well of his responsibility and reached a firm decision not to retreat a step.”

Ernesto Che Guevara book Guerrilla Warfare

Source: Guerrilla Warfare (1961), Ch. II: 2. The Guerrilla Fighter as Combatant

“A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.”

Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister

Source: Waiting and Dating

“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession”

Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“I, without grasping will pass beyond sorrow,
And I will attain nirvāṇa, one says.
Whoever grasps like this
Has great grasping.”

Nagarjuna Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

§ 16.9
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

“Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.”

Jane Fonda (1937) American actress and activist

Michael Perry. Jane's wrinkled but Fonda herself now. Sydney Morning Herald, 22 December 1985 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2a1WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=e-gDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5135,3817429

“Never speak disrespectfully of anyone without a cause.”

Thomas Jackson (1824–1863) Confederate general

Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims

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