Quotes About Time

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.

So much to do; so little done.

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

But, Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe, and on my jolitee, It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age, alias! that al wole envenyme, Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go, farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon, ther is namoore to telle; The bren, as I best kan, now most I selle.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth "a whole I plant, Youth shows but half; Trust God; see all nor be afraid."

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

Here's a new day. 0 Pendulum move slowly!

I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example, I think they deserve to have more than 12 years between the ages of 28 and 40.

I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.

If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years), I'd have taken better care of myself.

If the young only knew; if the old only could.

Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

I feel age like an icicle down my back.

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

Middle age is youth without its levity, And age without decay.

Few people know how to be old.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many people don't have that privilege.'

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

Growing old - it's not nice, but it's interesting.

I have learned little from the years that fly; but I have wrung the colour from the years.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less.