“I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.”
“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.”
“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.”
“The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.”
“The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!''”
“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
“The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.”
“Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.”
“You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.”
“Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
“When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.”
“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.”
“I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.”
“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
“There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.”
“By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.”
“I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.”
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.”
“From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.”
“The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.”
“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”
“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.”
“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”
“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
“What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.”
“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.”
“How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!”