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

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

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

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

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

A man growing old becomes a child again.

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

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

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.