Ogden Nash Quotes

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

As you get older what you think was 10 years ago was actually 15 years ago.

Age affects how people experience time.

Getting older is hard.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

Honestly, I didn't realize it - all of a sudden, I was 90. The years skipped by quickly. When it happened, I said, 'Where did the time go?'

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.

I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.

It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

They would grow old. They would forget me.