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The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.
Sep 30, 2025
The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.
Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.
Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change.
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.
Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
Time and tide wait for no man.
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.