Middle age
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. Ogden Nash
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. Ogden Nash
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Adams
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Lucille Ball
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. Bob Hope
When I turned 60, it didn’t bother me at all. Yoko Ono
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old. George Burns
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment. B. F. Skinner
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. Euripides
I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel. Henri Frederic Amiel
A man growing old becomes a child again. Sophocles
Age considers; youth ventures. Rabindranath Tagore
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Francis Bacon
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. Josh Billings
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. George Burns
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. Mark Twain
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Anais Nin
Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
Being seventy is not a sin. Golda Meir
Minds ripen at very different ages. Stevie Wonder
“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”― Frank Zappa
I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap. Bob Hope
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. Jonathan Swift
The trick is growing up without growing old. Casey Stengel
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. Josh Billings
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again? George Lucas
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Francis Bacon
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Victor Hugo
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. Aristotle
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. C. S. Lewis
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie
Adults are obsolete children. Dr. Seuss
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. Eleanor Roosevelt
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. Golda Meir
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. Voltaire
Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. C. S. Lewis
All diseases run into one, old age. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youth is wasted on the young. George Bernard Shaw
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. George Bernard Shaw
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. Henry David Thoreau
Age merely shows what children we remain. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Victor Hugo
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed. Arthur Schopenhauer
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. Emily Dickinson
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. Coco Chanel
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Frost
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. Cesare Pavese
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. Ira Gershwin
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. Oscar Wilde
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young. Theodore Roosevelt
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. Albert Camus
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Kurt Vonnegut