
“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
Monosticha http://www.gottwein.de/Grie/menand/monost_a.php (491).
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“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
“Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.”
Book i. Stanza 25.
The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1771)
“Age is never so old as youth would measure it.”
"The Wit of Porportuk" in The Best Short Stories of Jack London (1962) ISBN 0-449-30053-6
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 1 : Our life begins
“Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.”
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)