It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.
In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.
Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.
I feel fortunate that, by the age of 40, I had crammed in an entire political career.I had been in the Cabinet and been leader of the party, so now I can branch out into other things... it is a very liberating feeling.
You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.
The age of 40 is not a death sentence.
Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.
At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.
Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.
I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
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