Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

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

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

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

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

A man growing old becomes a child again.

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.

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