“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy”
Voltaire
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”
Victor Hugo
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.”
Edward Young
“At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.”
Benjamin Franklin
“35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”
Oscar Wilde
“To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.