As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

A woman has the age she deserves.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

He who is of 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.

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.