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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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