Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, read more

My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief
Are mine alone!
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have read more

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in read more

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.