I would fain grow old learning many things.
Plato
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I grow old learning something new everyday.
SOLON I grow old learning something new every day.
SOLON Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her f...
GEORGE MEREDITH I would fain die a dry death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
WALTER RALEIGH Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall
WALTER RALEIGH SR. Fain would I hide what I fear to discover
ROBERT BURNS Does he paint? he fain would write a poem, Does he write? he fain would paint a picture
ROBERT BROWNING Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Ex...
THOMAS PAINE There are faults we would fain pardon.
UNKNOWN I would fain die a dry death. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go pretty rose, go to my fair,
Go tell her all I fain would dare,
Tell her of hope; tell her o...
MICHAEL BEVERLY Go pretty rose, go to my fair, Go tell her all I fain would dare, Tell her of hope; tell her of spri...
MICHAEL BEVERLY Many grow old with ages, but some attains age with wisdom.
ANUJ SOMANY Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then f...
ALBERT J. NOCK I would rather err with Plato than think rightly with these (Pythagoreans)
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been -To public feasts, where meet a public rout - Where they are...
JOHN DAVIES I grow old . . . I grow old . . . / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
T.S. ELIOT We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
JOSEPH ADDISON In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, / Which is as white and hairless as an egg.
ROBERT HERRICK Politics: Poly.
MANY My whole life has been dedicated to music. And of course, I've been accused a million times of playi...
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the wo...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they g...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I
would fain see Posterity do something ...
SIR RICHARD STEELE "We are always doing," says he, "something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do somethin...
JOSEPH ADDISON I've got a kid six years old. He likes sports, but I definitely won't let him pitch. There would be ...
GAYLORD PERRY Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
ROBERT HERRICK People afraid of growing old are those who did not grow wise along.
ASCETIC ANGEL If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEI I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
ROBERT MCKEE He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat.
BIBLE Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;
I may, although I care not for pleasure when...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH I would forget it fain,
But oh, it presses to my memory,
Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinn...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The ol...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The ol...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forge...
WALT DISNEY If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
BARBARA HALE Learning how to cut trees down is intelligence; learning how to grow them is wisdom.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not ...
ROSALYN S. YALOW Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.
ROBIN A.H. WATERFIELD You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
MICHAEL PRITCHARD You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing.
MICHAEL PRITCHARD We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
UNKNOWN You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We don't stop laughing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop laughing
MICHAEL PRITCHARD It is amazing how many people want to live a long life, and yet so few want to grow old.
UNKNOWN I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.
SIMONE SIGNORET We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We do not stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing.
ANON. We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some frien...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory...
KAKUZō OKAKURA My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.
SHANE FILAN Plato's dialogues bear...
BENJAMIN JOWETT One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE My mind was formed by studying philosophy, WERNER HEISENBERG I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorptio...
JOHN DARNIELLE Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by m...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to...
ROBERT WYATT You can either grow old gracefully or begrudgingly. I chose both.
ROGER MOORE I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.
HARUKI MURAKAMI I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different thi...
JAIME KING The Establishment Won't Be Satisfied Until They Have Turned Us All Into Plato's Cavemen
DEAN CAVANAGH An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
MARKUS ZUSAK Seems like yesterday still plays a part. When I grow up, I wanted a job making art. Picture that, ho...
ATMOSPHERE You're never too old to start learning, and you're never too young to aim high and achieve g...
ASA HUTCHINSON I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made...
MARILYN MONROE The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public
business: "we do much for posterity; I ...
MRS. ELIZABETH ROBINSON MONTAGU (MONTAGUE) I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are inst...
JACK KEVORKIAN Plato is boring.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they st...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they st...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ There are so many awesome things you can do with the board, that I'm still learning all it can do.
CAROL GRIFFIN It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I l...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I think many clinicians, many physicians, are now listening and also learning about complementary th...
DAVID ROSENTHAL Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it...
NICK FLYNN We travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would f...
JOSEPH ADDISON Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning ano...
FLORA LEWIS Everyone will be old. We must grow old gracefully whoever we are.
KAZERONNIE MAK We don't just grow old. We become old when we stop growing.
SUE ZIANG Plato was a bore.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You're never too old to learn something stupid.
KEN NDARU What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow...
OSCAR WILDE Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have...
JACKIE KENNEDY I believe if I refuse to grow old,
I can stay young 'til I die.
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ I am not worthy of the wealth I owe, nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is; but, like a timorous t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
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Then looking u...
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