Stages of Life Quotes

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

My life's a book; I've got a bunch of different chapters.

Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

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

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.

We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs.

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

We kind of deny the stages of life.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars