Age Quote by Edward Young

“A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.”

— Dorothy Dunnett

“At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer…

— Confucius

“[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“A wise man, once he is past fifty, does not befuddle his senses with strong drink, nor make violent love in the cool spring…

— Frans G. Bengtsson

“as a reminder to himself that at forty-three you don't make plans to dabble in different lives. At forty-three, what you are, what you…

— Richard Price

“We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren’t perhaps we should be less wise at fifty.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“for what could a silent man of five-and-thirty hope, when opposed to a very lively one of five-and-twenty?”

— Jane Austen

“... forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on.”

— Julian Barnes

“A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Thirty is a watershed year for men. If they’re going to develop intelligence, they do it around then, and if they don’t, it’s too…

— Eloisa James

“For he had acquired a lore in his youth which taught him ever to avoid the aged when merry plans were afoot; for the…

— Lord Dunsany

“I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is fast approaching…

— Juan Gabriel Vásquez