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.

Harrison, Jane

17.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

18.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

19.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

20.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

21.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

24.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

25.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

26.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

27.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

28.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

29.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

30.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

31.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

33.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

34.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

35.

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

Wharton, Edith

36.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

37.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

39.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

40.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

41.

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

42.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

44.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

45.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

46.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

47.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

48.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.