Edward Young Age Quotations

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.