
“The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.”
Book VII, 1335a.27
Politics
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 695.
Ὡραῖος δὲ γυναῖκα τεὸν ποτὶ οἶκον ἄγεσθαι, μήτε τριηκόντων ἐτέων μάλα πόλλ᾽ ἀπολείπων μήτ᾽ ἐπιθεὶς μάλα πολλά· γάμος δέ τοι ὥριος οὗτος.
“The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.”
Book VII, 1335a.27
Politics
“Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.”
Estelle Getty, ‘Golden Girls’ Matriarch, Dies at 84, New York Times, July 23, 2008
ExtraTV interview, November 2006 http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2006/11/happily_ever_after_catherine_a.html
Source: Travelling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear (2001)
“Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
UKIP: Gerard Batten says Nigel Farage trying to 'discredit' party https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47926785 BBC News (14 April 2019)
2019
As quoted in Hope Notes : 52 Meditations to Nudge Your World (2004) by Wayne Willis, p. 11.