- “In the morning, we carry the world like atlas; at noon, we stoop and beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.” [HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)]
- “Youth IS BLUNDER ; manhood a struffle; old age a regret.” [BENYAMIN DISRAELI, Coningby(1884)]
- “At twenty man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty nothing at all.” [BALTASAR GRACIAN, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)]
- “At twenty the will reules; at thirty the intellect; at forty the judgment.” [BALTASAR GRACIAN, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)]
- “There are but three events which concern men: birth, life, and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.” [LA BRUYERE, Characters (1688)]
- “Every stages of human life, except the last, is marked out by determinate boundary.” [CICERO, De Senectute (44 B.C.)]
- “The four stage of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.” [ART LINKLETTER, a Child’s Garden of Information (1965)]
- “As an infant, man is wrapped in mother’s womb; grown up he is wrapped in custom; dead, he is wrapped in earth.” [MALAY PROVERB]
- “For Complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.” [W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, The Summing Up (1938)]
- “We do not have a childhood, a maturity, an old age: several times during our lives we have our seasons, but their course is not well known: it I s not clearly laid out.” [JULES RENARD, Journal , October 1950]
Life Life-Stages-of Live and Death Middle Age Old Age Era Old and Young Adversity Wisdom Solitude Loliness Longevity Love
