Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

You can't put off being young until you retire.

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Nobody stays young forever.

I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

nobody ever intends to be old.

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.