Franklin P. Adams Quotes

Middle age 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 is the youth of old age.

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

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

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.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?

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.

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

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

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.

I hear people in their 20s describe the 40s as a far-off decade of too-late, when they'll regret things that they haven't done. But for older people I meet, the 40s are the decade that they would most like to travel back to.

Some feel old at 45.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

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 man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

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

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

I always felt like my best years would be from 50 to 65 years old. I don't know why. It was a feeling I had even when I was really young.

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

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

Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.