Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

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

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

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

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

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

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

You can't be 25 all the time.

Being in one's 50s is a powerful time.

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!

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.

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.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.