“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln

“I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find – at the age of fifty, say – that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about…It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.”
Agatha Christie

“All would live long, but none would be old.”
Benjamin Franklin

“A woman has the age she deserves.”
Coco Chanel

“I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.”
Elizabeth Arden

“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?”
Harriet Beecher Stowe

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”
Maurice Chevalier

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
Oscar Wilde

“I see no comfort in outliving one’s friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.”
Thomas Jefferson

“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.”
William Wordsworth

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

“It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.”
Brigitte Bardot

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
Robert Browning

“It’s important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle.”
Unknown

“At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.”
Benjamin Franklin

“They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.”
Unknown

“I don’t do alcohol anymore – I get the same effect just standing up fast.”
Unknown

“Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men.”
Chinese Proverb

“Old age ain’t no place for sissies.”
Bette Davis

“The last birthday that’s any good is 23.”
Andy Rooney

“Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.”
Jennifer Yane

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

“The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.”
Joan Collins

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
George Bernard Shaw

“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
Benjamin Franklin

“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”
Groucho Marx

“After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.”
Bette Midler

“Age considers; youth ventures.”
Rabindranath Tagore

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”
Agatha Christie

“Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.”
Bill Vaughan

“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.”
George Bernard Shaw

“You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”
Bob Hope

“Gray hair is God’s graffiti.”
Bill Cosby

“The really frightening thing about middle age is knowing you’ll grow out of it.”
Doris Day

“When you become senile, you won’t know it.”
Bill Cosby

“You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.”
Harrison Ford

“The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson