"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks." Charles Dickens

"Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age." Elizabeth I

"Birthdays can remind you of how old you're getting to be. But they're a better reminder of how long and how faithfully God has been watching over you." unknown

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." Douglas MacArthur

"The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date." Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)

"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything." Kurt Vonnegut

"You enter this world with no teeth and no hair, and you leave this world with no teeth and no hair." Anonymous

"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest." Larry Lorenzoni

"If your teeth are clenched and your fists are clenched, your lifespan is probably clenched."Terri Guillemets

"You are never too old to be what you might have been." George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)

"When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day." Marty Bucella

"The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for." Will Rogers, 1879 - 1935

"You are as old as your spine." Yogi Bhajan

"It is not how old you are, but how you are old." Jules Renard, writer

"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (1809-1894)

"No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement." Florida Scott-Maxwell

"Spring makes everything young again except man." Jean Paul Richter, German author (1763-1825)

"How old you are is inversely proportional to your spontaneity quotient." Veronique Vienne

"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do." Golda Meir

"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it." George F. Burns

"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older." Abraham Sutzkever

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen." Mark Twain

"We turn not older with years but newer every day." Emily Dickinson

"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to." Bill Vaughn

"What's the good of a birthday if you can't get what you want?" Gracie Fields

"I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old like you, open to life, to youth, to dreams, as somebody aware that youth and age are merely steps towards eternity." Dom Helder Camara

"To be old is a glorious thing when one has not unlearned what it means to begin." *Martin Buber*

"Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age." George Burns (1896 - 1996)

“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

"When I was younger, there were things I was just too afraid to try. The really important thing as you get older is that you can do anything you want to." Mary Helen Washington

“It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily in rust as in rose petals” Esther Warner Dendel, writer and artist (1910-2002)

"The older I get, the more I think all that matters is working with people you like.” Eric Schmidt

“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.” Christopher Morley

“You should wear with pride the scars on your skin, They're a map of the adventures and the places you've been.” Poi Dog Pondering

“No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.” John Cassavetes

“Education is the best provision for old age.” Aristotle, quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosphers, book V, sec. 21 by Diogenes Laertius

“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing” Henry Miller

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” Garson Kanin

“The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.” George Santayana

“When I can look Life in the eyes, / Grown calm and very coldly wise, / Life will have given me the Truth, / And taken in exchange---my youth.”Sara Teasdale, poet (1884-1933)

“Age gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.” Will Barnet

“The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.” Albert Einstein

“A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.” Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)

“A man is not old until his regrets take the place of dreams.” Yiddish proverb

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” Henry David Thoreau

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” Muhammad Ali

“You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.” Anonymous

“To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.” Bernard Mannes Baruch, quoted in Newsweek (on his 85th birthday)

“Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” Samuel Ullman

“As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.” Mahlon Hoagland

“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.” Rosalyn S. Yalow

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?” Satchel Paige

“Gray hair is God's graffiti.” Bill Cosby
“The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon.” Charles Schulz
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” Jeanne Moreau
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.” Victor Hugo
“Lying about your age is easier now that you sometimes forget what it is.” Anonymous

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” George Bernard Shaw