The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year old men more.
Age Quotes
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
Until I was twenty-five I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have unfolded within myself.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.
Men at forty learn to close softly the doors to rooms they will not be coming back to.
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can’t say which was more exquisite.
By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.
