When a man of forty marries a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he's seeking but his own.

Intertitle from The Dangerous Age (1923); as quoted in Storyline: Recollections of a Hollywood Screenwriter (1973) by Coffee, p. 82; The Women who Write the Movies (1994) by Marsha McCreadie, p. 92; and Women Screenwriters: An International Guide (2015) by Jill Nelmes and Jule Selbo