STAGES OF LIFE   

Babyhood:

          Happy those early days,

            When I shined in my angle infancy.

                         (Vaughan Henry)

Childhood:

           How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood,

           When fond recollection recalls them to view,

            The orchard, the meadow, the deep tingled wildwood,

             And every loved spot which my infancy knew.

                                                                     (Samuel Woodworth)

Adulthood:

           When I was one and-twenty

I heard a wise men say,

Give crowns and pounds and guineas

But not your heart away;

Give pearl away and rubies

But keep your fancy free.

But I was only one-and-twenty,

No use to talk to me

                            (A. E. Housman)

Old age:

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

(W.B.Yeats)

            There is always a child in every old man.

                                                   (Unknown)

the old believe everything, the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

                                                    (Oscar Wilde)