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

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

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

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

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

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

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.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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.