In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense of partial failure, our less than ideal families, […]
Age Quotes
She took to telling the truth; she said she was forty-two and five months. It may have been pleasing to the angels, but her elder sister was not gratified.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
When I was young, I was told: “You’ll see, when you’re fifty.” I’m fifty and I haven’t seen a thing.
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of life it may occur.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
