Hope Quote by Jane Austen

“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

“Now he turned on to the side street, making his way to number thirty-three, resisting the urge to smile, resisting the urge to sob…

— Markus Zusak

“O, what shall I be at fifty, If I am then alive, I find the world so bitter, When I am but twenty-five?’[236]”

— Rhoda Broughton

“At thirty a man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his…

— Edward Young

“The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

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

— Stephen King

“You know, from what I've seen, at twenty you know you're not going to be a rock star. By twenty-five, you know you're not…

— Douglas Coupland

“A silence settled over the city, a silence that spoke of twenty thousand equally sad goodbyes: lover to lover, mother to son, and father…

— Peter Flannery

“His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that extatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against…

— Jane Austen

“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

“The young men of this generation mock the words of age; it would be well if they mocked nothing else; but what can we…

— John William Polidori

“Who knows if, upon reaching the age of twenty, I may find something there that will change my life? The night is promising and…

— Jô Soares