Middle age is when you’re old enough to know better but still young enough to do it.
Age Quotes
God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
When one is twenty yes, but at forty-seven Venus may rise from the sea, and I for one should hardly put on my spectacles to have a look.
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, “Smile, Grandma!” I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother’s lap.
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means […]
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I’d only be 48. That’s the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
