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

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.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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

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

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

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

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.