Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.
- Thomas A. Edison

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. - Confucius Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
- Lord Cecil

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

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
- Jean Anouilh

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
- Francis Bacon

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

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.
- Judith Viorst

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
- Malcolm Cowley

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
- Oscar Wilde

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
- Louis Kronenberger

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
- Liv Tyler