Harold Coffin Quotes

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

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

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

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

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

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

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.

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

Nobody stays young forever.

Of course, no one wants to get older.

I'm getting older. That's realistic. I can't reverse time. I can slow it down a little bit.

The speed and timing go with age.

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

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.