“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.”
Lady Bracknell, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Jack Benny said, "Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." A “stuck on 39” running gag got started the year after Jack Benny celebrated his “first” 39th birthday on the air. It was so much fun he decided to do the same thing the next year, because “There’s nothing funny about 40.” Jack would celebrate his 39th birthday 41 times. Headlines in 1974 reported “Jack Benny Dies - At Age 39?”
And of course the old Adage, You're only as old as you feel.
I am far too ornery to allow something as mundane as chronological time dictate to me
