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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.