Doris Day Quotes

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

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

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.

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

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

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

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

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

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

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.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.

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

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.