One cannot help being old – but one can resist being aged.

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Man has reached middle age if he can’t repeat his follies with impunity; woman, with grace.

You know you’re getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thinking, ‘Gee, I wonder what her mother looks like’.

You are only young once, but if you use your time right, once is enough.

Only the good die young, which explains the average age of Congressmen.

Aging is a process by which you become more like everyone else and less like yourself.

Middle age is when you’re old enough to know better but still young enough to do it.

God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.