Quotes About Transition

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Here is a toast that I want to give To a fellow I'll never know; To the fellow who's going to take my place When it's time for me to go.

The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray, Gone is the sun, come are the stars, And night infolds the day.

Irrevocable as a haircut.

No wonder can last more than three days.

There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads - God knows where.

I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

The beginning is easy; what happens next is much harder.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in them but now they seem hardly to belong to her - and probably she is involved with another batch of kittens as I am involved with other writing.

The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance, a palace or temple on earth, and at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Age 35. — Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

Age 39. — It's weird, when you're 39 it starts to happen...

Age 41. — I am forty-one years of age, and I feel myself begin to change, and to lose my health, natural spirits and strength.

Age 48. — I am forty-eight years old, it is time for my life to begin.

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.

This year's book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next.

Like age, a new year is just a number.

There is nothing hot that will not get cold.

The first step binds one to the second.