Quotes About Time

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .

If youth knew; if age could.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Age appears to be best in four things, - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

The best ears of our lives.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

Life's too short for chess.