Quotes About Time

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Age is a bad traveling companion.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age; one is lost in them the other hidden.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Age is the most terrible misfortune that can happen to any man; other evils will mend, this is every day getting worse.