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He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich, or wise.

Jacula Prudentum · 1640

★ 1.9

A man should not marry after thirty years of age; should not enter the government service after the age of forty; should not have any more children after the age of fifty; and should not travel after the age of sixty. This is because the proper time for those things has passed.

1524

★ 1.9

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

1818

★ 1.9

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Anne Bradstreet

Meditations Divine and Moral · 1867

★ 1.9

A man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

William Faulkner

1962

★ 1.9

Epigrams · Journal

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

1894

★ 2.0

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

1741

★ 2.2

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

What is the prime of life? May it not be defined as a period of about twenty years in a woman's life, and thirty in a man's?

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 2.4

At thirty, Man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.

Night Thoughts · 1742

★ 3.5

Standup comedy · Comedy

It's amazing how our attitude on alcohol changes, right? Cause even as a teenager you know it's wrong. You're like, "You know, I don't like the taste of it, but I want to look cool." And then in your twenties you're like, "You know what, this kinda gives me confidence to talk to the opposite sex." Then in your forties you're like, "You know what, this is the only thing I like about being alive."

Obsessed · 2014

★ 3.5

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1920

★ 3.7

Play · Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Once a man's thirty, he's already old, He is indeed as good as dead. It's best to kill him right away.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust · 1808

★ 3.9

Philosophical literature

At fifteen my mind was set on learning. At thirty my character had been formed. At forty I had no more perplexities. At fifty I knew the Mandate of Heaven. At sixty I was at ease with whatever I heard. At seventy I could follow my heart's desire without transgressing moral principles.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 4.0

Film · Comedy (film) · Western (film) · Comedy · Western

Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so fast. When you're a teenager, you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you'll have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two o'clock in the afternoon, you have lunch around ten, breakfast the night before, you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate soft yogurt and muttering, "how come the kids don't call? How come the kids don't call?" The eighties, you'll have a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama. Any questions?

City Slickers · 1991

★ 5.3