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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

- Ogden Nash

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To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. (attributed but unverified)

- Maurice Chevalier

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I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

- Thomas Jefferson

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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age: first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

- Cicero

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

- Henry David Thoreau

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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

- Virginia Woolf

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

- Madeleine L'Engle

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All would live long, but none would be old.

- Benjamin Franklin

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

- Helen Hayes

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It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

- Alice James

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There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

- Cornelia Otis Skinner

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

- Elizabeth Arden

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It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.

- Alfred Adler

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

- H. L. Mencken

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A woman has the age she deserves.

- Coco Chanel

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I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

- Thomas Alva Edison

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There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.

- Horace Rumpole

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