Jimmy Page Quotes

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

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

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.

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

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

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

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.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

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.'

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.

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.

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

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

I think in your 30s you can still pretend you're in your 20s, or at least maintain some semblance of youth. Forty is when you've got to stop denying the inevitable.

The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.

Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties.

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