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- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. — Thomas Carlyle
- Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean. — Geoffrey Chaucer
- Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. — Geoffrey Chaucer
- There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily. — Geoffrey Chaucer