Janet Erskine Stuart Quotes

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

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

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

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

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

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

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.

We in middle age require adventure.

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.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.'

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

People always talk about how time flies; it's become sort of a colloquialism now. You don't really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s - and I'm sure time will move even faster as I get older.

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

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

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.

Some feel old at 45.

I don't love the fact that gravity is winning as I get older, but there's also a calmness that comes with it, which I'm secretly enjoying.

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.