Quotes About Time

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.

It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!