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.
Age Quotes
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.
Wives are young men’s mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men’s nurses.
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
I believe the true function of age is memory. I’m recording as fast as I can.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Sex at the age of eighty-four is a wonderful experience. Especially the one in the winter.
A woman’s always younger than a man of equal years.
The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.
