Sounds like Bernard Shaw - brilliant writer, but not reliable on matters of the heart. (Or it could have been Jean-Paul Sartre.)
Justinian wrote Byzantines legal code
Anne Tyler wrote The Amateur Marriage.
Legal...probably sure...but does it mean anything...NO. I mean, why would you bother....it doesn't mean or indicate you PAID back then. At most that you wrote the check back then, (which means nothing....so you wrote it and put it in the desk drawer...you don't get any credit for that). When it is presented and accepted are the meaningful things.
Mozart was 30.
Cesare Sterbini.
It is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Al Funcoot. I.e. Count Olaf.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote it
It is nothing gold can stay by the way Robert Frost wrote it he is my favorite and Maya Angelou as well :D
this quote by Chief Seattle
Everything I need and Nothing for Nothing.
Edmund O'Neill