"When you're 20 you care what everyone..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
More by Winston Churchill
“There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.”
“Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.”
“it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.”
More on Life
“When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.”
“Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.”
“Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.”
More on Aging
“Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.”
“I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.”
“It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.”