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

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.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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

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

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

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.

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