"I am admonished in many ways that..." - Quote by Mark Twain
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.
More by Mark Twain
“The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.”
“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
More on Age
“There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.”
“After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.”
“Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.”
More on Time
“Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.”
“Dreams don't deal in time. Time doesn't count.”
“The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.”