We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.
In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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.