Lauren Hutton Quotes

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Being in one's 50s is a powerful time.

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way.

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.

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

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'

Speaking personally, I didn't think 40 would be a big issue, and I don't think I have issues about age, but there are naturally some big questions that come up at that point in your life.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

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

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

Turning 40 didn't, as a number, scare me or throw me off at all.

I've always thought 45 to 55 is a great time for guys: Your body has filled out. Your face doesn't look old, but you're weathered enough to look like you know what you're talking about.

Having a collection of regrets when you hit your 40s is part of the deal.

Some feel old at 45.