At the age of twenty, we don’t care what the world thinks of us; at thirty, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at forty, we discover that it wasn’t thinking of us at all.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Through a dull tract of woe, of dread, The toiling year has pass’d and fled: And, lo! in sad and pensive strain, I sing my birthday date again.
When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.
Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it’s up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
How swift have flown To me thy girlish times, A woman grown beneath My heedless eyes! In vain I rack My fancy to believe The almanac, That speaks thee twenty-one.
Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
