Franklin P. Adams Quotes

When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

Age affects how people experience time.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.

There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

I think until you reach your mid-30s, there's either a real acceptance of where you are or a resignation of where you are.

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

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

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s.

The more we engage in society, the more firsts we have, then there will be a moment when we have no more firsts. Or maybe there will always be new firsts.

18 to 19 is definitely a brilliant age. Equally, 50 or 60 should be good. Everything is done; you can relax a bit.

There are five great ages of man - five moments when you need to reevaluate everything, clear out the cupboard and the wardrobe, and most importantly, your head. They are 13, 20, 30, 40 and 60. All men need to know this.

I'm so immature and still feel so young. Forty doesn't feel any different than 30 did.

I would've preferred to blossom earlier in life.

My life's a book; I've got a bunch of different chapters.

In your twenties, you might want to be radical and change the world, but in your thirties, you might just want to be happy and ground yourself.

I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic isn't it?