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

- Stanislaw Lec

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

- Dwight L. Moody

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

- John Adams

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

- Hosea Ballou

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

- Don Marquis

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

- Bette Midler

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

- Sophia Loren

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

- Victor Hugo

It takes a long time to become young.

- Pablo Picasso

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.

- T. S. Eliot

Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

- Bob Hope

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age is no place for sissies.

- Bette Davis

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

- Tom Stoppard

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

- Francis Bacon

Age considers youth ventures.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Voltaire

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

- Theodore Roosevelt

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

- Maurice Chevalier

A man growing old becomes a child again.

- Sophocles

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

- George Burns