A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
We are always the same age inside.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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