Quotes on Milestone Birthday

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

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.

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

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 a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

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

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

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.