#Life Stages Quotes

“It is time to be oldTo take in sail.”

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

“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.”

“Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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?”

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

“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.”

“I'm sorry to say that when some people get to age 50, they say, "Well, that's the end, I'll never have to do sex again." They lay down first and get up last! But in your sixties, everything is sweeter. You have more time.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.”

“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.”

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

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

“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”

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

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

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

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

“Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”