The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with
interest, about thirty years after date.
-- Colton
interest, about thirty years after date.
-- Colton
Related:
- The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure,
but the harvest is reaped in age by plain. --... - It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.
Terence (185-159 BC) -- Adelphoe, Act v, Sc. 8, 30... - Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
Victor... - After a certain number of years,
our faces become our biographies... - Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of
youth for those of age.
Ambrose... - Astronomers See Death Star Thirty Eight Light-Years Away,
And Coming Our Way... - Old age and treachery will overcome youth and
skill... - What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul...
From the same category:
- 1 bulls, 3
... - Bad judgement + experience + luck = good
judgement... - Dogs just don't seem to be able to tell the difference
between important people and the rest of us... - A chicken is an egg's way of producing
more eggs... - But I was going to go into Toshi Station to pick up some power converters!
Luke Skywalker to his Uncle (Star...
