Quotes About Change

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Age is the most terrible misfortune that can happen to any man; other evils will mend, this is every day getting worse.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger one.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

When people ask me if I have any spare change, I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet.