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

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

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.