Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

- Harold Coffin

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

- Doris Day

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

- Don Marquis

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

- Pearl S. Buck

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

- Pierre Corneille

I don't want to fight aging I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

- Christine Lahti

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

- Katharine Graham

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

- Kevin Spacey

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

- Alan Bleasdale

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

- James Thurber

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

- Jean Paul

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

- Harrison Ford

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

- Louis Kronenberger

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

- Sting

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

- B. F. Skinner

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

- Kitty O'Neill Collins

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

- Josh Billings

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

- Jane Elliot

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

- Bob Hope

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

- Golda Meir