top of page

"In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died."

William Lilly, English Celebrity

6

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died."

Explore more quotes by William Lilly

"I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments."

"After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me."

"In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds."

"Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles."

"After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised."

"If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment."

"In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died."

Exlpore more Age quotes

"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Age, Dawn, Grace, Old

"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Age, Science, Credit

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Age, Work, Genius, Cleanliness

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

"Age merely shows what children we remain."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Age, Motivation, Success, Leadership

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Age, Belief, Disguise

"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Age, Time, Teaching

"Not even old age knows how to love death."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Death, Love, Old

bottom of page