“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 me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“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
“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
“To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.