Ann Landers Quotes

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

It's funny, I get a little quieter with time. I don't want to chase my tail and one day repeat myself and repeat myself and one day have kids going to college and not have memories that I should, because I was too busy doing my thing.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.'

If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

Turning 50 is making me reflect on my life in a way that's more compassionate and forgiving.

Having a collection of regrets when you hit your 40s is part of the deal.

I had to figure out at 61 years of age: 'Holy moly! Who am I?'

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff.

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

I’m not young anymore. I don’t wanna start over again.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.