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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughan

Being seventy is not a sin.
Golda Meir

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Pope Paul VI

A grownup is a child with layers on.
Woody Harrelson

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.
Marvin Davis

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw

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

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Louis Kronenberger

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
Sting

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
Frances Conroy

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard Baruch

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.
Jane Elliot

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
Thomas Dekker

No man is ever old enough to know better.
Holbrook Jackson

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
Knut Hamsun

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Max Lerner

Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle

All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Age merely shows what children we remain.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead

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

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Emily Dickinson

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
William Feather

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Judith Viorst

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Josh Billings

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
Warren Beatty

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Helen Gurley Brown

Minds ripen at very different ages.
Stevie Wonder

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Mason Cooley

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
Yoko Ono
Turned, Bother
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
Malcolm Muggeridge

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
Christine Lahti

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
Colleen McCullough

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Hume Cronyn

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Beverly Sills

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.
Douglas Coupland