Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

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.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

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

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

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

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

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