“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.”
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“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”
“Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.”
“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
“Old age is no place for sissies.”
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”
“Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”
“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”
“Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.”
“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.”
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.”
“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.”
“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”
“The trick is growing up without growing old.”
“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”
“I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.”
“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.”
“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.”
“After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.”
“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.”
“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.”
“Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.”