Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
-- Stanislaw J. LecYouth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard ShawYouth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
-- Bill VaughnYouth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
-- Herbert AsquithThere's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
-- Fay WeldonThose who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
-- Dorothy Canfield FisherTo keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
-- Amos Bronson AlcottTo me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
-- John BurroughsTo resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
-- Alan BleasdaleTrue is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
-- Kurt VonnegutWe are only young once. That is all society can stand.
-- Bob BowenWe pay when old for the excesses of youth.
-- J. B. PriestleyWe should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
-- Pearl S. BuckWe've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
-- Frank A. Clark