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Quotes About Time

You can only be twice someone's age once.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
~ Mark Twain
It is time to be old To take in sail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?
~ Patton Oswalt
Veins raised themselves along the backs of my hands that summer. My handwriting changed several times. I began reading Time magazine. Soon after that it was time to go.
~ Lorene Cary, Black Ice
That amazing time in our lives is gone, and will never return. All the beautiful possibilities we had then have been swallowed up in the flow of time.
~ Haruki Murakami
I felt like I wasn't living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn't be if I'd been born in 1929.
~ Miranda July, It Chooses You
Hush now, 'tis time to sleep and dream secrets of long ago.
~ Jan Reid, Deep Water Tears
Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.
~ Sara Sheridan
I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.
~ Virginia Woolf
Old age isn't a battle old age is a massacre.
~ Philip Roth
She claims she just turned thirty but it must have been a U-turn!
~ Elmer Pasta
She's not pushing forty she's dragging it.
~ Anonymous
The age of some women is like the speedometer on a used car - you know it's set back but you don't know how far.
~ Anonymous
What can you say when your husband says: 'You can't expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older."
~ Toni Anderson
Sometimes I feel that I'm not just aging . . . I'm decomposing.
~ Fletcher Anderson
It's a sobering thought: When Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
~ Tom Lehrer
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.
~ George Burns
I'm sixty-five but if there were fifteen months in every year I'd only be forty-eight.
~ James Thurber
People who have the most birthdays live the longest.
~ Jean Bucher
Old age is like everything else to make a success of it you got to start young.
~ Fred Astaire
There are three ages of man: youth middle age and "Gee you look good."
~ Red Skelton
Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
~ Nathan Myhrvold