Happy age, and happy days where those, to which ancients gave the name of golden; not that gold, which in these our iron-times is so much esteemed, was to be acquired without trouble in that fortunate period; but because people then were ignorant of these two words MINE and THINE: in that sacred age, all things were common.... All was then peace, all was harmony, and all was friendship
Don't die, Sir. Take my advice and live many years more.
Tell me what company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are.
Yesterday they gave me Extreme Unction and today I write these words. Time is short, my worries grow, hope fades, and so I lie longer than my will to live.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Happy age, and happy days where those, to which ancients gave the name of golden; not that gold, which in these our iron-times is so much esteemed, was to be acquired without trouble in that fortunate period; but because people then were ignorant of these two words MINE and THINE: in that sacred age, all things were common.... All was then peace, all was harmony, and all was friendship
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