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

Voltaire

persons, virtue, age, energy

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.

Francis Bacon

appears, things, best, age

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

Andrew Carnegie

age, older, attention

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

Betty Friedan

aging, new stage of opportunity, age

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

George Burns

getting older, age

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

old as those who have outlived

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

Victor Hugo

old age of youth fifty the youth

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Albert Camus

certain age, responsible, for his face, age

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard