Quotes
Quotes about Years
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathaena.
Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it soon cut off, and we fly away.
He has grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life. So that no wonder waits him.
. . . Years steal Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb; And life's enchanted cut but sparkles near the brim.
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Years and sins are always more than owned.
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
The person of wisdom is the person of years.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
The time to begin most things is ten years ago. -Mignon McLaughlin.
Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch.
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare.
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
