Old age is when we begin extolling the past at the expense of the present.
The excesses of our youth are drafts of our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date.
It takes a long time to become young.
I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep 
grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
Age is simply the number of years the world has had to enjoy you!
No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living.
I love being a great-grandparent, but what I hate is being the mother of a grand-parent.
Almost the length of the river if past before you learn how to float, at last — before you learn you cannot foreknow the route of the river — not halt its flow.
My doctor said I look like a million dollars – green and wrinkled.
Grow whole, not old!
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
The excesses of our youth are drafts of our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. (Charles Caleb Colton, English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832
It takes a long time to become young.
Do not regret growing older; it is a privilege denied to many.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
Growing old may be mandatory, but growing up is optional.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.
People are like bicycles; they can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.
Age is simply the number of years the world has had to enjoy you!
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places.
All would live long, but none would be old.
You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you’re down there.
I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.
Old age begins the day your descendants outnumber your friends.
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a longer life.
Not old, just bikini-impaired!
Too early old, too late smart!
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
You can live to be a hundred, if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred.
You’ll find that as your grow old, you stop bothering to hide the self you’ve been all along.
The best is yet to be, the last of life for which the first was made.
Aging is about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
All would live long, but none would be old.
Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball-the further I am rolled, the more I gain.
Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.