Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.
Ogden NashRead
No, you never get any fun_x000D_ _x000D_ Out of the things you haven't done.
Interpretation
Engaging in experiences is essential for enjoyment and fulfillment.
Ogden Nash's quote emphasizes that true enjoyment and fun are derived from actively participating in experiences rather than remaining stagnant or hesitant. It suggests that stepping out of oneβs comfort zone and trying new things is crucial to experiencing joy and understanding the richness of life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about trying new experiences.
Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.
I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.
Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.
We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.
It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell?
I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude get stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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