Old age is no place for sissies.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Age considers youth ventures.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

All diseases run into one, old age.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.