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Quotes About Time

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
~ Unknown
I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
~ Garry Shandling
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
~ Robert Southey
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
~ Victor Borge
We are only young once. That is all society can stand.
~ Bob Bowen
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
~ Walter Matthau
Some people have the time but they don't have time while others have time but do not have the time.
~ Jacques Prévert
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess
~ James Thurber
All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.
~ Thornton Wilder
My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face.
~ William Shakespeare
Nature is always behind the age.
~ Oscar Wilde
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
~ Unknown
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Each age has deemed the new-born year. The fittest time for festal cheer.
~ Sir Walter Scott
Before a clock was in the tower, Or e'er a watch was worn; I knew of night the passing hour, And prophesied the morn; To man of every age and clime, The oldest chronicler of time.
~ John Banister Tabb
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and how well you look.
~ Nelson Rockefeller
I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.
~ Ed Wynn
Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to achieve the things we wanted, we look ahead to the time we have left to us. Our children are gaining life, and our parents are losing it.
~ Unknown
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like the summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
~ William Shakespeare
Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.
~ Unknown
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
~ Victor Hugo
Age is¦wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.
~ Miriam Makeba
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
~ Jean Paul Richter