In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

- Pope Paul VI

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

- Doug Larson

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

- Frances Conroy

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

- Sam Ewing

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

- Warren Beatty

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

- Helen Gurley Brown

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

- Judith Viorst

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

- Brigitte Bardot

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

- William Feather

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

- James Broughton

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

- Euripides

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

- Emily Dickinson

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

- Lauren Bacall

The trick is growing up without growing old.

- Casey Stengel

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

- Betty Friedan

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

- Doris Lessing

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

- Andre Maurois

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

- Margaret Mead

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