"Time and tide wait for no man,..." - Quote by Robert Frost
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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“My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a treeToward heaven still,And there's a barrel that I didn't fillBeside it, and there may be two or threeApples I didn't pick upon some bough.But I am done with apple-picking now.Essence of winter sleep is on the night,The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.”
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...”
More on Time
“The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”
“To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.”
“He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.”
More on Aging
“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”
“I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day..." JRR Tolkien, Letter # 174”
“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”