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

—Leon Trotsky

I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year, I’d only be 48. That’s the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than 12 years between the ages of 28 and 40.

—James Thurber

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood — Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

—Goldie Hawn

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

—Benjamin Franklin

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

 —Francis Bacon

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

 —Daniel Francois Esprit Auber

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

—Cicero

It’s a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

—Tom Lehrer

When you’re 50 you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity —but actually it’s about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

 —Joyce Carol Oates

At 20 you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond 40 there are only real and fragile truths —your abilities and your failings.

—Gerard Depardieu

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquility of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

—W. Somerset Maugham

Grow old along with me! / The best is yet to be, / The last of life, / For which the first was made.

 —Robert Browning

It takes a long time to become young.

 —Pablo Picasso