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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

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