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.

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

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

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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.

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

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