Laurence J. Peter Quotes

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

The only thing that makes me feel old is when I can see your ankles and you have on pants.

Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.

Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

I've always looked old for my age.

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

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

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.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

A lot happens at 50, the best thing being that you just don't care anymore. At 40, you still care. At 30, you care way too much - and your twenties are quite frankly a nightmare. Bring on 60, I say: just imagine the joy of having grandchildren.