Quotes About Transition

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

An American credit card… is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

IN April 1882 my father died and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

There was a young man from Trinity, Who solved the square root of infinity. While counting the digits, He was seized by the fidgets, Dropped science, and took up divinity.

One more river,And that's the river of Jordan,One more river,There's one more river to cross.

It's gude to be merry and wise,It's gude to be honest and true;It's gude to be off with the old love,Before you are on with the new.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away.

When the horse is dead, get off.

Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.

When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired.

Life begins at retirement.

[Joe Gillis]: You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.[Norma Desmond]: I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end.

You can't hide your true colors as you approach the autumn of your life.

No matter how far in or out of the closet you are, you still have a next step.

The things you did with that cucumber in college does not make you a vegetarian.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

He gave up the ghost.

How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm After They've Seen Paree?

Now you must wake up,All dreams must end.Take off your makeup,The party's over,It's all over,My friend.

Old card players never die, they just shuffle away.