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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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

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