Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

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

Andre Maurois

Growing old, habit

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

George Bernard Shaw

over forty is a scoundrel.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

age, old, outlived

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.

Francis Bacon

appears, things, best, age

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

Aristotle

age, ornament, repraoch

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

Bill Cosby

everyone, mistake, getting, age

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

Victor Hugo

Forty, Fifty, Old Age

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

Stanislaw Lec

youth, gift of nature, age is work of art