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

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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

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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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.