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All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)

More about this quote: wist.info/aldrich-thomas-baile…

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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey - "Leaves from a Notebook," Ponkapog Papers (1903) | WIST Quotations

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?

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#Gettingold I am not afraid of getting old, if our humor stays like that …🤔🫣😉🤣 www.instagram.com/reel/DUJ6hRh...

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WIST Quotations Jan 30

A quotation from Horace

Years foll’wing Years, steal something ev’ry day,
At last they steal us from our selves away;
In one our Frolicks, one Amusements end,
In one a Mistress drops, in one a Friend:
This subtle Thief of Life, this paltry Time,
What will it leave me, if it snatch my Rhime?

[Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
eripuere iocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum;
tendunt extorquere poemata: quid faciam vis?]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 2 “To Julius Florus,” l. 55ff (2.2.55-57) (14 BC) [tr. Pope (1737)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14802/

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Horace - Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 2 "To Julius Florus," l. 55ff (2.2.55-57) (14 BC) [tr. Alexander Pope (1737)] | WIST Quotations

Years foll'wing Years, steal something ev'ry day, At last they steal us from our selves away; In one our Frolicks, one Amusements end, In one a Mistress drops, in one a Friend: This subtle Thief of Life, this paltry Time, What will it leave me, if it snatch my Rhime?…

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Bawons Child Jan 29

Getting old is a crock of shit. I wear "readers" now. I was today years old when I discovered I cant see shit. On top of that trying to be kind to technology when in all reality I want to sometimes put a hole in my monitor.

#gettingold #oldman #thesruggleisreal

Rev. caffinepwrd ☕Jan 29

I realized I'm getting old. A team needed a holding page for their project. Some place to publish their final work on the Intranet.

I went full Geocities under construction. Included a MIDI of Men at Work.

No one understood why I was so pleased with myself.

#imtoooldforthisshit
#gettingold

Brian Jan 26

@stephanie I managed to get the 3 in of ice on top of a few of snow off my driveway without breaking my back or my heart. I did, sadly, not go help chip the ice off a road across the way as I usually do. #gettingold

DeadTOm

Jan 14

I keep having this little revelation, when I see recent photos of actors I've grown up watching:

"Man, they're getting old.

Wait a minute... that means I'm getting old..."

#GenX #GettingOld #Geezer

Stefano Marinelli Jan 12

Me in 2012: "Hey, it’s only 23:30! I can still work on some servers and updates!"
Me in 2026: "Hey, it’s 21! I can finally go to bed and rest my eyes!"

#TimeFlies #GettingOld