A man growing old becomes a child again.

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

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

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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

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

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

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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.