About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.

Oh to be seventy again.

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

Few people know how to be old.

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.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.