Quotes About Time

Age 40. — I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience.

Age 40 & the 40s. — People often say to a boy when he eats between meals: "It will spoil your dinner." But, piecing between meals never spoils your meals until after you pass forty.

Age 45. — Thrice fifteen summers have their foliage cast...

Age 49. — A man's physical prime is between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the prime time for his soul and capacity for thought is around forty-nine.

Late 50s. — ...on the shady side of fifty...

Age 65. — I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be fifty-two. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty.

Age 67. — Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young — I mean, for a whole day at a time.

Ages 70+. — The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Age 80. — In a dream you are never eighty.

—So it is... you muse upon the time... when the brooks shall water your meadows, and come laughing down your pasture lands; —when the clouds shall shed their spring fragrance upon your lawns, and the daisies bless your paths.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birth-day of our eternity; and it is the only way to it.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

This year's book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next.

Like age, a new year is just a number.

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.

Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday.

Time goes but does not come back.

You must lose time to have time.

A woman is like mahogany — the older she is, the better she is.

I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain this to you.

I wasted another year of my life but this time it's not my fault.

It's no longer 5:00 somewhere — it's 2020 everywhere. Drink up!

2020 is a unique leap year. There are 29 days in February, 300 days in March, and 5 years in April.