Franklin P. Adams Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

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

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

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

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Few people know how to be old.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

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

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

I'm 26 years old. I don't need to be playing 16 anymore.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.