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

A man growing old becomes a child again.

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

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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

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

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

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