What I know at sixty I knew at twenty. Forty years of superfluous verification.
—Emil Cioran
I don't know how I got to be thirty. I don't feel thirty, the way I felt so definitely nine, and thirteen, and twenty-one.
—Rachel Khong in Vitamin
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
—Tom Stoppard
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
—Oscar Wilde
Don't you find it odd that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.
—Ethan Hawke in The Hottest State
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
—Ogden Nash
You're never too old to become younger.
—Mae West
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
—Russell Baker