When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
Source: Du Mariage, ch. 6, 1907.
-- Leon Blum, (Apr 9 1872-1950), French politician; He was the first Socialist (and the first Jewish) premier of France, presiding over the Popular Front coalition government in 1936-37.