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.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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

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

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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

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

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

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