My time has been passed viciously and agreeably — at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe diem' is not enough — I have been obliged to crop even the seconds — for who can trust to tomorrow?

for many people “twenty years of experience” is really one year of experience repeated twenty times.

Life goes quickly, doesn't it?

but it is not what one does so much as the way that while one does it time runs past forever.

Since I was about twenty-five, nothing changed, except I got smarter and wiser and things have an effect on you. But I never thought I was any older, really. It was just a very long twenty-five!

Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

Is it ever occurring to you that a human bean who is fifty is spending about twenty years sleeping fast?

Some people who claim to have twenty years of experience have one year of experience that they’ve repeated twenty times.

It takes a very long time to become young.

The days are long but the years are short.

Forever is a very long time Peter

…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.