Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.