Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, read more

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were read more

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.