The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that from age to age nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money it is all profit it completes our education founds and fosters our friendships and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

No matter what age you are or what your circumstances might be you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life because of who you are has meaning.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues and politics itself is a mass of lies evasions folly hatred and schizophrenia.

Age is something that doesn't matter unless you are a cheese.

When marrying ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.

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

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

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

No one can avoid aging but aging productively is something else.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

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

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.

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

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

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 feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it you've got to start young.

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.

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.

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.