Years Quotes

Most popular years quotes

The years teach much which the days never know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
The years teach much which the days never know.

experience age

A minute's success pays the failure of years. - Robert Browning quote.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

failure success & failure success

Years steal
Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb. - Lord Byron quote.
Years steal
Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb.

aging

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave. - Dorothy Parker quote.
Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

age

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.  We get to be responsible for our faces.

face biography

People forget years and remember moments.
Ann Beattie Where You’ll Find Me: And Other Stories

forgetting

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

asking questions

The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world. - Wystan Auden quote.
The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world.
Years teach us more than books.

age

Year, n.  A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
Year, n.  A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
For years fleet away with the wings of the dove. - Lord Byron quote.
For years fleet away with the wings of the dove.
I could not prove that years had feet—
Yet confident they run. - Emily Dickinson quote.
I could not prove that years had feet—
Yet confident they run.
All the years have their harvest.
Our years
Glide silently away. - Horace quote.
Our years
Glide silently away.
I have learned little from the years that fly; 
But I have wrung the color from the years.
Years following years steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away. - Alexander Pope quote.
Years following years steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away.
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. - John Steinbeck quote.
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
Years grow cold to love. - Virgil quote.
Years grow cold to love.
The years like great black oxen tread the world,
And God the herdsman goads them on behind,
And I am broken by their passing feet. - W. B. Yeats quote.
The years like great black oxen tread the world,
And God the herdsman goads them on behind,
And I am broken by their passing feet.
There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

time

Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping—rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas—But, goodness, why need they do it? - John Dos Passos quote.
Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping—rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas—But, goodness, why need they do it?

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