What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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

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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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.

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

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

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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