Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.
In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
I’m not afraid of aging.
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled.
