Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

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

Francis Bacon

never, always, age

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Robert Frost

diplomat, remember

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

George Bernard Shaw

over forty is a scoundrel.

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

Stanislaw Lec

youth, gift of nature, age is work of art

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

Emily Dickinson

old age, suddenly, gradually, thought

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

Victor Hugo

Forty, Fifty, Old Age

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

Andrew Carnegie

age, older, attention

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

C.S.Lewis

incessant, great,