I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the year of maturity.

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

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

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

Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.

Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Old age is no place for sissies.

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

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.

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