“Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.”
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”
“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.”
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”
“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
“A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.”
“I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.”
“It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.”
“One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.”
“I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.”
“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.”
“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.”
“The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.”
“The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!''”
“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
“Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.”
“You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.”
“When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.”
“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.”
“I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.”
“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
“There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.”
“By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.”
“I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.”
“From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.”
“The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.”
“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”
“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.”
“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”