On Age

• We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse!

• You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

• Age is a number and mine is unlisted.

• Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

• Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

• It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.

• Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it.

• There is still no cure for the common birthday.

• The older you get, the stronger the wind gets, and it's always in your face.

• Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

• Age will not be defied.

• Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

•  Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous one but now it's too late.

• It is a failing of youth to imagine everyone is as strong as they are, a failing that is actually the reflection of a virtue.

• The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

• Those whom the gods love grow young.

• Maturity is the assimilation of the features of every ancestor.

• Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

• The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

• Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

• 5 The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

• The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

• Unfortunately there is too short an interval between the age when one is too young and that when one is too old.

• The younger the person, the quicker they age. It's the old who age the slowest.

• 7 Youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

•  Senescence begins
  and middle age ends,
  the day your descendants
  outnumber your friends.

• Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you,

• In ageing we become stupider and wiser.

• The older people grow, the more they resemble themselves.

• If youth knew, if age could.

• The years a woman subtracts from her age are not lost: they are added to the age of other women.

• It is better to wear out than to rust out.

• Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.

• There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

• Childhood's a risk we all take.

• If you want old age you must choose your parents.

• There are some extraordinary fathers whose sole purpose in life seems to be giving their children good reason not to regret their death.

• The most infallible way to make your child miserable is to accustom him to obtain everything he desires.

• A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.   

• Old is when your wife says 'Let's go up stairs and make love' and you reply 'Choose one - I can't do both!'

• Old is when an attractive young lady catches your fancy and your pacemaker opens the garage door.

• Old is when your friends compliment you on your new alligator shoes and you're barefoot.

• Old is when a pretty lady passes by and your friend says, 'Can you remember when we used to chase after such things?', 
  and you reply 'Yes, but I can't remember why'