Dean Inge Quotes

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

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

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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

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.

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

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

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

I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.

I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

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.'