Carolyn Wells Quotes

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

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

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

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

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.

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

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

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

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

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

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

You can't be 25 all the time.

You go from Pampers to Depends!

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

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

One should mature over 20 years.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

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

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.