The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you…

“You know the three Ages of Man, don’t you?” Hodges asks. Pete shakes his head, grinning. “Youth, middle age, and you look fuckin terrific.”

— Stephen King

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.

— Anonymous

There are five great ages of man - five moments when you need to reevaluate everything, clear out the cupboard and the wardrobe, and…

— A. A. Gill

In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.

— Bill Cosby

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

— Richard J. Needham

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable…

— George Bernard Shaw

Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

— Anonymous

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man…

— Orison Swett Marden

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Imprimis: I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is…

— Henry James

Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived like one…

— Hartley Coleridge

“Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite substance is something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is…

— William Shakespeare

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.

— Aristotle