Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least, get out of the way so you won’t get run over.
Age Quotes
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. (Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol)
Most of us don’t have a second chance to correct the mistakes of our youth. I do, and I am.
Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced […]
Women are most fascinating between the age of thirty-five and forty after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labor to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year old men more.
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.
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.
