Affair Quote by Emily Carr

At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time…

— Mark Haddon

You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

— Joan Rivers

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the…

— Melina Marchetta

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Twenty-two is just such a random age. It's a little blah.

— Jennifer Damiano

Age will bring all things, and everyone knows, Madame, that twenty is no age to be a prude.

— Moliere

“Sixty-four has a way of forgetting what twenty-one was like.”

— Stephen King

“to look twenty-nine. The young look older and the old look younger, collapsing the adult lifespan into one long twentysomething ride. Even a new…

— Meg Jay

Being a twenty-something can be a difficult phase.

— Whitney Port

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

— Moliere

“...at twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell…

— Booth Tarkington