If
youth knew; if age could.
-- Henri Estienne
1531-1598, French
Scholar, Publisher
People
between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The
child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It
only knows when it is no longer able to do --after
forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the
child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it
has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his
capacity to do is forced into channels of evil
through environment and pressures, man is strong
before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by
people between twenty and forty.
-- William Faulkner
1897-1962, American
Novelist
Life
begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism,
faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to
the same person, three or four times.
-- William Feather
1888-18, American
Writer, Businessman
One of
the many things nobody ever tells you about middle
age is that it's such a nice change from being
young.
-- Dorothy Canfield
Fisher
1879-1958, American
Writer
