A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
— Robert Frost
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
— Edward Young
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
— Arnold Bennett
After 30, a body has a mind of its own.
— Bette Midler
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
— Tom Stoppard
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment.
— Ben Franklin
At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
— George Orwell
Birthdays? yes, in a general way;
For the most if not for the best of men:
You were born (I suppose) on a certain day:
So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?
— James Kenneth Stephen
Call this an unfair generalization if you must, but old people are no good at everything.
— Moe, from the Simpsons
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
— George Bernard Shaw
Words of Wisdom:
- All roads lead to Rome.
- He who kills iron to iron dies.
- Not for long until you reach it early.
- The accounts clear and chocolate thick.
- The walls have ears.
- The truisms, which called closed fist hand.
- It does not hurt that abounds.
- What you must not eat, let it cook.
- Duels are less with bread.
- Hand in hand, as a woman of clerk