Alonso Of Aragon Was Wont To Say In Commendation Of Age, That Age Appears To Be Best In Four Things,--old Wood Best To Burn, Old Wine To Drink, Old Friends To Trust, And Old Authors To Read.

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Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age
appears to be best in four things,--old wood best to burn, old wine
to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
-- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
-- Apothegms, No, 97

Education is the best provision for old age. -- Aristotle
Old friends are like old wine. They sour with age. -- The Great Gildersleeve (Harold Peary)
Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemie
but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends....
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
-- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Marriage and Single Life...
With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.

Alonso Of Aragon Was Wont To Say In Commendation Of Age, That Age Appears To Be Best In Four Things,--old Wood Best To Burn, Old Wine To Drink, Old Friends To Trust, And Old Authors To Read.

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