“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”
– Victor Hugo
“Age considers youth ventures.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
“A man growing old becomes a child again.”
– Sophocles
“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
– Francis Bacon
“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.”
– Maurice Chevalier
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.”
– Bill Vaughan
“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”
– Albert Camus
“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.”
– George Burns
“Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.”
– Victor Hugo
“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“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.”
– Francis Bacon
“Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.”
– Bill Cosby
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
– Aristotle
“All diseases run into one, old age.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”
– Agatha Christie
“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.”
– Samuel Ullman
“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”
– Confucius
“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
– C. S. Lewis
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
– Andrew Carnegie
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.”
– Robert Frost
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
– Mark Twain
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
– Henry Ford
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Mark Twain