Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the read more

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo,
Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!

Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo,
Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!

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

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

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. read more

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. Byron.

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

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

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.