Robert Blair Quotes

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

Nobody stays young forever.

What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn?

...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

The human body is in constant change the minute we're born. It's in a constant state of decay. We're all like Ford Escorts, just falling apart.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

You slow down when you get older.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.

I guess I'd like to get old and die, in that order.