What though youth gave love and roses,
Age still leaves us friends and wine.
-- Thomas Moore
Age still leaves us friends and wine.
-- Thomas Moore
Related:
- T is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from
your cheek,
though sorrow long has washed them. -- Edward Moore... - As sunshine broken in the rill,
Though turned astray,
is sunshine still. -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -... - Though an angel should write, still 't is devils must print.
Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The Fudges in England... - You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still... - What is learned in youth is understood
in age... - There 's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream.
-
Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Lalla Rookh, The Veiled... - What youth deemed crystal,
age finds was dew... - Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth,
And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth... - Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition,
there are still untapped possibilities within us...
From the same category:
- Sterility is hereditary: if your parents
didn't have children,
neither will you... - Picard: "Now at the risk of being rude--"
Q: "Yes, once again,
I overstate my welcome. As a human, I was ill-equipped... - People are strange when you're a
stranger... - What is the point of having mastery over the cosmic balance
and knowing the secrets of fate
if you can't blow something up?
Terry Pratchet, Reaper... - Don't blame me-
I voted for...
