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Wives Are Young Men's Mistresses, Companions For Middle Age, And Old Men's Nurses.
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old
men's nurses.
-- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
-- Of Marriage and Single Life
Related:
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune
for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief....
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. -- George Chapma
Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
-- Old Testament -- Wisdom of Solomon iv, 8...
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel
and fitter for new projects than for settled business....
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel
and fitter for new projects than for settled business....
CONNOISSEUR -- a man who collects old masters and young mistresses.
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)...
Anger makes dull men witty--but it keeps them poor. -- Sir Francis Baco