Fran Lebowitz Quotes

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

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.

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

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

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

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60.

I love being in my forties. Just getting there and realising that you haven't grown horns or boils on your bum, when all the time it had been this thing looming in the future, is such a relief.

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

I feel a bit weird about turning 40. It makes you feel like you've passed over on to the other side a bit.

I would agree on the aging thing. Because, at a certain point, once you start noticing it, it is your subject. And I know young that people, when they get to 30, say, "Oh, I'm so old." But actually, around 50, you do become conscious of it.

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.

I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.

I don't feel old. Okay, maybe I do when I get in a conversation with Earl Thomas, who was born in 1989.

You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.