Quotes on Age Of 40

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

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.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

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.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

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.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

We are always the same age inside.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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.

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.