In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Edith Wharton

17.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

Lillian Carter

18.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

19.

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...

Sharon Olds

20.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Edith Wharton

21.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Lynn Johnston

22.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren

23.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

24.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle

26.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Carol Matthau

28.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

29.

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

Gloria Pitzer

30.

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

Groucho Marx

31.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

32.

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

Age isàwisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

Miriam Makeba

35.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

George Santayana

36.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

37.

I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

Louise Nevelson

38.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

39.

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Bernard M. Baruch

40.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me.'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'

Earl Warren

41.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Homer

42.

Where is the path to Grown-Up Land? How do I get there? Or will I just get old, not understanding that I'm no longer young?

Tish Grier

43.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Ellen Glasgow

44.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers

45.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Doug Larson

46.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Michael Pritchard

47.

It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Elizabeth Aston

48.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Plato

49.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

50.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes