“Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.”
Helen Rowland
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”
Victor Hugo
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy”
Voltaire
“At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.”
Benjamin Franklin
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
Robert Frost
