Life, Stages of

1. “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)]



2. “Youth IS BLUNDER ; manhood a struffle; old age a regret.” [BENYAMIN DISRAELI, Coningby(1884)]



3. “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)]



4. “At twenty the will reules; at thirty the intellect; at forty the judgment.” [BALTASAR GRACIAN, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)]



5. “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)]



6. “Every stages of human life, except the last, is marked out by determinate boundary.” [CICERO, De Senectute (44 B.C.)]



7. “The four stage of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.” [ART LINKLETTER, a Child’s Garden of Information (1965)]



8. “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]



9. “For Complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.” [W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, The Summing Up (1938)]



10. “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

Life

1. “Live is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history
   books but it is terrible when one has to live it.” [JEAN ANOUILH, Time
   Remembered (1939)]



2. “Live has a way of setting things in order and leaving
   them be very tidy is life.” [JEAN ANOUIGH, The Rehearsal (1950)]



3. “A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,/ A pint of joy to a peck of trouble,/
   And never a laugh but the moans come double;/ and that is life.” [PAUL LAURENCE,
   ”Life” The Complete Poems (1962)]



4. “It has always been difficult for man to realize that his life is all the art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so then to act it so” [HAVELOCL ELLIS, The Dance of Live (1923)]



5. “We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed. ” [THOMAS FULLER,M.D. , Gnomologia (1932)]



6. “Life is continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.” [WILLIAM HAZLITT. , “Disappointment.” (1820)]



7. “There is saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of live until he has
   known poverty , love and war.” [O.HENRY, “The Complete Life of John Hopkins”
   (1908)]



8. “We love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving.” [NIETZSCHE, ”On reading and Writing”. Hus Spoke Zarathustra
   (1883-92)]



9. “The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
   [MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditation (2nd. C.)]



10. “Life is short, but its ills make it seems long .” [PUBLILIUS, Moral Sayings (1st. C. B.C.)]



11. “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” [OSCAR WILDE, “The Decay of
    Lying.” (1891)]