What did John Wolcot mean by: Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality. - John Wolcot Poet · England Copy
+ People may have too much of a good thing: Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Wolcot, Eggs, 0 - John Wolcot Poet · England
+ To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Wolcot, Faces, Hypocrisy, 0 - John Wolcot Poet · England
+ What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024February 5, 2024, John Wolcot, Fame, Rage, 0 - John Wolcot Poet · England
+ Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Wolcot, Affection, Motivational, Reality, 0 - John Wolcot Poet · England
+ The turnpike road to people’s hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Wolcot, Heart, Lying, Mistake, 0 - John Wolcot Poet · England
+ Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Wolcot, Doubt, Heal, Nails, 0 - John Wolcot Poet · England
+ It is money makes the mare to trot. Feraz Zeid, June 23, 2023December 12, 2023, John Wolcot, Money, 0 - John Wolcot Poet · England
+ The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then. Feraz Zeid, October 3, 2023December 26, 2023, John Wolcot, Fool, 0 - John Wolcot Poet · England
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age. - Wassily Kandinsky Painter · Russia
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Poet · France
