Life Stages Quotes

You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

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

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.

When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

It is time to be oldTo take in sail.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults say this to children I look into their faces. They look like someone on the top seat of the Ferris wheel who has had too much cotton candy and barbecue. They'd like to get off and be sick but everyone keeps telling them what a good time they're having.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

In USA, a black man only have like five years we can exhibit maximum strength, and that's right now while you a teenager, while you still strong, while you still wanna lift weights, while you still wanna shoot back. 'Cause once you turn 30, it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man, out of a black man, in this country. And you don't wanna fight no more.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

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

When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.

But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

Number of things happen after I was 50. One, you are hopefully secure in what you want to do - which means that you don't spend a lot of time chewing on your knuckles about your reason for being here.Also, you're at your most beautiful. No woman is ever more beautiful than she is at 50.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.

Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

As you advance in life, different passions can take the front seat, so for me, business is where my primary focus is right now.

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.

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.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.

So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.

You must prepare yourselves, young people, because Uncle Dave's generation is getting old. We are almost ready to go to the retirement home to spend the rest of our days tapping our bedpans rhythmically in time to "easy listening" rock 'n' roll. We must pass the torch on to you, and you must grasp it, ideally by the end that is not on fire.

Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.