But I think it’s a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That’s when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.
Juliette Binoche | woman and aging
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man’s life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
Seneca – Embrace and love Old age
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
Seneca – Age
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Michel de Montaigne – Age
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I’ve made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know.
Marilyn Monroe on facelift
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
George Eliot – Age
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
George Eliot – Age, Woman
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
Voltaire – Life, Age
I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
Doctor, Age
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Oscar Wilde – Tragedy, Age
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Goethe – Age
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw – Aging
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Cicero – Old age, talkative
Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life.
Cicero – Old Age, Joy
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
