How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
Age Quotes
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day’s long.
We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.
Personally, I intend to take Aristotle’s advice literally: he says that coyness serves as an ornament in youth and a defect in old age.
Old age was simply a delightful time, when the old people sat on the sunny doorsteps, playing in the sun with the children, until they fell asleep. At last they failed to wake up.
It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It’s middle- age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.
Live your life and forget your age.
You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.
The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, and wills.
