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

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

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

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

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.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.