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

- George Burns



Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

- Bill Vaughan



None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

- Henry David Thoreau



Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

- George Bernard Shaw



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

- Victor Hugo



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

- Aristotle



Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

- Bill Cosby



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.

- Francis Bacon



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

- Eleanor Roosevelt



Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

- Samuel Ullman



All diseases run into one, old age.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

- Confucius



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

- Andrew Carnegie



How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

- C. S. Lewis



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

- Kurt Vonnegut



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

- Robert Frost



Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

- Mahatma Gandhi



Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Mark Twain



Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

- Mark Twain



He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche



It is not the strength of the body that matters, but the strength of the spirit.

- J. R. R. Tolkien, - Gandalf (Fictional character - The Lord of the Rings)



It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently

- Warren Buffett