Margaret Mead Quotes

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

I used to think 63 was old.

When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.

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.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

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

It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

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

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

I always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

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

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.