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

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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

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

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

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

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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