1. Eleanor Roosevelt - “At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.”

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2. Proverb - “Wrinkled as a prune.”

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3. Proverb - “The old gray mare just ain't what she used to be.”

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4. Proverb - “Older than dirt.”

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5. Proverb - “Old as the hills.”

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6. Proverb - “Old as dirt.”

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7. Proverb - “As poor as dirt.”

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8. Proverb - “When you see an old man amiable, mild, equable, content, and good-humored, be sure that in his youth he has been just, generous, and forbearing. In his end he does not lament the past, nor dread the future; he is like the evening of a fine day.”

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9. Proverb - “For the ignorant, old age is as winter; for the learned, it is a harvest.”

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10. Edward Young - “Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.”

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11. Edward Young - “At thirty man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same. And why? Because he thinks himself immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves.”

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12. John Wesley - “Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.”

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13. Oscar Wilde - “I am not young enough to know everything. [see J. M. Barrie]”

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14. Unknown - “Many people use their youth to make their old age miserable.”

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15. Unknown - “Time changes with time: in youth, time marches on; in middle age, time flies; and in old age, time runs out.”

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16. Unknown - “Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.”

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17. Unknown - “Old too soon, smart too late.”

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18. Unknown - “You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.”

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19. Unknown - “When you are young, women tell you, 'Look but do not touch.' As you get older you hear just the opposite.”

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20. Unknown - “Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.”

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21. Unknown - “Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.”

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22. Unknown - “Gray hairs are death's blossoms.”

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23. Unknown - “Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.”

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24. Harvey Ullman - “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity.”

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25. Mark Twain - “[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.”

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