"Middle Age - When you want to see how long your car will last instead of how fast it will go." - Anonymous

"Old age is the verdict of life." - Amelia Barr, All the Days of My Life

"To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am." - Bernard Mannes Baruch, quoted in Newsweek (on his 85th birthday)

"Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?" - Bible, Job 12:12

"If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself." - Eubie Blake

"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places." - E. Joseph Cossman

"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." - Bob Hope

"The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence." - Art Linkletter, A Child's Garden of Misinformation

"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Middle age is . . . when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel just as good as ever." - Don Marquis, attributed

"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves." - George Orwell, last words written in his notebook

"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny." - SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, The Coming of Age

"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." - JACK BENNY, quoted in New York Times

"With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding." - BIBLE, Job 12:12

"Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made."
- ROBERT BROWNING, Rabbi Ben Ezra

"As a white candle
In a holy place,
So is the beauty
Of an aged face."
- JOSEPH CAMPBELL, The Old Woman

"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative." - MAURICE CHEVALIER, quoted in New York Times

"If youth knew; if age could." - HENRI ESTIENNE, Les Primices

"Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old." - WASHINGTON IRVING, Bracebridge Hall

"Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

"I dread no more the first white in my hair,
Or even age itself, the easy shoe,
The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair
Time, doing this to me, may alter too
My sorrow, into something I can bear."
- EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, Sonnet

"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - SATCHEL PAIGE, Formula for Staying Young

"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime youhaven't committed." - ANTHONY POWELL, A Dance to the Music of Time: Temporary Kings

"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened." - SAKI, Reginald

"Old age is an incurable disease." - SENECA, Epistulae ad Lucilium

"Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing."
- SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It

"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood." - LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts

"I grow old ever learning many things." - SOLON (fragment)

"Nobody loves life like him that's growing old." - SOPHOCLES, Acrisius

"Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old." - JONATHAN SWIFT, Thoughts on Various Subjects

"The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long." - A.J.P. TAYLOR, quoted in The Observer

"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man." - LEON TROTSKY, diary entry (Diary in Exile)

"I thought no more was needed
Youth to prolong
Than dumbbell and foil
To keep the body young.
Oh, who could have foretold
That the heart grows old?"
- W.B. YEATS, A Song