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Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.
Sep 10, 2025
The age of 40 is not a death sentence.
I feel fortunate that, by the age of 40, I had crammed in an entire political career.I had been in the Cabinet and been leader of the party, so now I can branch out into other things... it is a very liberating feeling.
Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.
In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.
I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
We can't reach old age by another man's road.
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.
I am not young enough to know everything.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.
We are always the same age inside.
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
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.
Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.