Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

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

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

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

I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

nobody ever intends to be old.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.

Old age is but a second childhood.