“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
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Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)
Source: The courage to be happy
“In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.”
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.”
“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.”
Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918
Source: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Source: Watt
“Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.”
Source: Poems
“Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope with His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements,3: From the Text of Dr. Warburton with Life of the Author
“If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.”
“When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.”
Source: The Complete Poetry
“A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.”
“The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.”
“The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.”
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
“You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.”
“Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.”
“One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.”
“A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.”
Source: Letters
“This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.”