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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really have not changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you do not change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

I am happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it is such a nice change from being young.

After you are older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

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

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.