Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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 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.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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

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