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.

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

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

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

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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

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

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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