Quotes About Change

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

In the age in which we live, the impossible is every day losing ground.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair. Time, doing this to me, may alter too. My sorrow, into something I can bear.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.