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

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

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

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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.