Quote by Scott Lynch

Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at…

— Scott Lynch

“Be a good listener to the elders. There is a good chance that you will learn something in 20 minutes or less that took…

— Fredio Samples

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

— Julian Barnes

“Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“As a young girl I thought, with fervent hope, that ten years was some kind of magic formula. That if I were seventeen instead…

— Gwen Hayes

“...every period of life has its necessities, and at forty-seven it's just as well to trust a little to the head.”

— James Fenimore Cooper

“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

“He has wisdom beyond his years. He’s 87-years-old, and he’s at least as wise as an 88-year-old.”

— Jarod Kintz

“We are all great alchemists. We distil ourselves over and over again.”

— Deborah Valentine

“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It does not take age to be a sage, neither does it require rage to have the courage to be a sage in this…

— Ogwo David Emenike

“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.”

— Anonymous