Phyllis A. Whitney Quotes

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

I didn't get my licence because I wasn't allowed to. But I haven't had a seizure for a long time so I could, theoretically, get my licence. But I'm now just so used to not driving, I'm scared of what I'd do.

Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.

Millions of Americans are denied the privilege of driving on health grounds.

Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment.

It's when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.

It sucks getting old.

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

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

I chose to wait to get my drivers license. Since I was working and I didn't have time, I got it like a week before my 18th birthday.

You've got to make adjustments as you get older.

When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.

I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.

It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

And before you ask, no, you're not driving, Myrnin. I remember the last time." "That accident was not my fault." "You were the only one on the road, and the mailbox actually didn't leap out in front of you. No arguments. You sit in the back, too.

Once you cross the 50 you feel like an unsaddled horse.

The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.

In terms of driving, I actually don't have a driver's license, and it's kind of ridiculous. I've lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years and just have somehow managed to avoid taking the test, which I did last week and failed. I couldn't find the honker. I felt bad about it, but it's just a little bit embarrassing, I guess, to be in this film and not have a license.

They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.

The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.