Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.
It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.
We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.
I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.
To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.
These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.
Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?
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.
