When you are fifty, you’re neither young nor old; you’re just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you’re phenomenal!
Age Quotes
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety, other women cloy. (Antony and Cleopatra)
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is baloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are most beautiful.”
In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense of partial failure, our less than ideal families, […]
She took to telling the truth; she said she was forty-two and five months. It may have been pleasing to the angels, but her elder sister was not gratified.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
