Quotes About Time

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

We tried not to age, but Time had its rage.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Middle Age - Later than you think and sooner than you expect.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without a name.

Old age is not a joy, but death is not a gain.

One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Midlife crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about the same age.

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.