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

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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

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

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

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.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

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

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