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. age, habit,

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain

wrinkles, merely, age

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

aging, new stage of opportunity, age

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

Emily Dickinson

old age, suddenly, gradually, thought

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

Victor Hugo

grace, wrinkles, adorable, age

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

Victor Hugo

old age of youth fifty the youth

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

Stanislaw Lec

gift of nature, work of art.

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

Robert Frost

diplomat, remember