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.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

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

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

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

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.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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