“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.”
“Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.”
“Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.''”
“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.”
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
“I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.”
“Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.”
“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
“In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.”
“Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.”
“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.”
“There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.”
“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”
“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.”
“Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.”
“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”
“We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.”
“Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.”
“Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”
“Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.”
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”
“Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.”
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.”
“While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.”
“Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.”
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”
“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”
“Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.”
“The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.”
“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”