Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

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

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

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.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

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

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

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