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

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