Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.