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Aging43 quotes
Old to grow, but ever learning. — Solon · 119I am ashes where once I was fire. — Lord Byron · 1824Well, I've been afraid of changing
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too. — Fleetwood Mac · 1975When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not. — Yoda · 1983Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so fast. When you're a teenager, you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you'll have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two o'clock in the afternoon, you have lunch around ten, breakfast the night before, you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate soft yogurt and muttering, "how come the kids don't call? How come the kids don't call?" The eighties, you'll have a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama. Any questions? — Mitch Robbins · 1991You and I are past our dancing days. — William Shakespeare · 1597All 43 quotes →Middle age4 quotes
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. — John Donne · 1631Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to. — Donald Justice · 1967Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up the net. — Franklin P. Adams · 1944Life Begins at Forty. — Walter B. Pitkin · 1932Effects of aging3 quotes
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves. — George Orwell · 1949Years steal
Fire from the mind as vigour from the Limb;
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. — Lord Byron · 1818Age will flatten a man. — Ed Tom Bell · 2007Effects of time3 quotes
Time beat him. Time, you know, takes everybody out, it's undefeated. — Rocky Balboa · 2015No one can stop a ticking clock, but the great ones, the great ones always find a way to slow it down. — Sonny Weaver Jr. · 2014We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air;
We dug a spring in infancy
Of water pure and fair;
We sowed in youth a mustard seed,
We cut an almond rod;
We are now grown up to riper age —
Are they withered in the sod? — Charlotte Bronte · 1835Life3 quotes
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already? — Ernest Hemingway · 1926I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall · 1988Old age3 quotes
Old to grow, but ever learning. — Solon · 119Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so fast. When you're a teenager, you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you'll have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two o'clock in the afternoon, you have lunch around ten, breakfast the night before, you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate soft yogurt and muttering, "how come the kids don't call? How come the kids don't call?" The eighties, you'll have a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama. Any questions? — Mitch Robbins · 1991Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old. — Jonathan Swift · 1727Passage of time3 quotes
Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought. — Theognis of Megara · 541 BCI can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already? — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Stages of life3 quotes
Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so fast. When you're a teenager, you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you'll have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two o'clock in the afternoon, you have lunch around ten, breakfast the night before, you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate soft yogurt and muttering, "how come the kids don't call? How come the kids don't call?" The eighties, you'll have a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama. Any questions? — Mitch Robbins · 1991At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. — Benjamin Franklin · 1741The human condition3 quotes
And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,
And thereby hangs a tale. — William Shakespeare · 1616Age will not be defied. — Francis Bacon · 1625What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now. — Lord Byron · 1818Time3 quotes
Time beat him. Time, you know, takes everybody out, it's undefeated. — Rocky Balboa · 2015No one can stop a ticking clock, but the great ones, the great ones always find a way to slow it down. — Sonny Weaver Jr. · 2014There's an experienced rebel, Time,
And in his squadrons Poverty;
There's Age that brings along with him
A terrible artillery:
And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown,
Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down. — Thomas Flatman · 1682Beauty2 quotes
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. — Oscar Wilde · 1890No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. — John Donne · 1631Death2 quotes
Age will not be defied. — Francis Bacon · 1625There's an experienced rebel, Time,
And in his squadrons Poverty;
There's Age that brings along with him
A terrible artillery:
And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown,
Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down. — Thomas Flatman · 1682Loss of passion2 quotes
I am ashes where once I was fire. — Lord Byron · 1824The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew,
The heart less bounding at emotion new,
And hope, once crush'd, less quick to spring again. — Matthew Arnold · 1866Wisdom2 quotes
Old to grow, but ever learning. — Solon · 119Our hair
turns white with our ripening
as though to fly away in some
coming wind, bearing the seed
of what we know. — Wendell Berry · 1980Youth2 quotes
Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought. — Theognis of Megara · 541 BCWe wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air;
We dug a spring in infancy
Of water pure and fair;
We sowed in youth a mustard seed,
We cut an almond rod;
We are now grown up to riper age —
Are they withered in the sod? — Charlotte Bronte · 1835Youth vs. old age2 quotes
You and I are past our dancing days. — William Shakespeare · 1597When you're young—when I was young—you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that? — Julian Barnes · 2011Baldness1 quote
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. — Logan Pearsall Smith · 1933Beauty and aging1 quote
When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not. — Yoda · 1983Beauty fades1 quote
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Being assertive1 quote
But you know that when the truth is told, that you can get what you want, or you can just get old. — Billy Joel · 1977Burnout1 quote
I am ashes where once I was fire. — Lord Byron · 1824Challenges of life1 quote
There's an experienced rebel, Time,
And in his squadrons Poverty;
There's Age that brings along with him
A terrible artillery:
And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown,
Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down. — Thomas Flatman · 1682Convictions1 quote
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920Dancing1 quote
You and I are past our dancing days. — William Shakespeare · 1597Emotions1 quote
When you're young—when I was young—you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that? — Julian Barnes · 2011Fear of change1 quote
Well, I've been afraid of changing
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too. — Fleetwood Mac · 1975Genius1 quote
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Grace1 quote
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. — John Donne · 1631Growing old together1 quote
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty four? — The Beatles · 1967Growing up1 quote
You're getting on. You're pushing 30, slugger. You know, it's time to think about getting some ambition. — Charley Malloy · 1954