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

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

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

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

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.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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

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