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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.