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Quotes About Time

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
~ Lord Cecil
A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
~ William Feather
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.
~ Philip Johnson
Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.
~ Jean Paul
After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.
~ Mason Cooley
If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.
~ Alex Borstein
One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
~ E. W. Howe
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.
~ Mason Cooley
Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Every age is an unknown country.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.
~ Patricia Moyes
I don't want to age myself.
~ Serena Williams
You can only understand the present age when it is past.
~ Han Suyin
Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.
~ Haruki Murakami
Whatever age we are is the age we've always been.
~ Graydon Carter
now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.
~ Helen Westley
The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.
~ Rebecca West
We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.
~ James Franco
Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.
~ James Lee Burke
Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.
~ James Simpson
I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.
~ Jan Karon
The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.
~ Jasper Fforde
By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach.
~ Thomas De Witt Talmage
Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.
~ Jeaniene Frost