Jane Pauley Quotes

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Half the time, I feel like I'm 12. And the rest of the time, I feel like I'm 80. So I guess I'm somewhere in between. No, I feel great. I've got my health, and that's the most important thing.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

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.

Some feel old at 45.

When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.