What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- While youth offers romance and beauty, age offers the deeper comforts of friendship and leisure.
- In plain terms
- Old age trades youthful romance for reliable friends and good wine.
- What can you take from it?
- Value the steady comforts of age over the fleeting thrills of youth.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What do you gain from aging that you can't buy?
- How do your needs change with time?
Another view
It assumes aging brings comfort rather than decline or isolation.
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