A man’s age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man’s age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.       —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?

 —Satchel Paige

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.            —Leon Trotsky

Something remains for us to do or dare; /Even the oldest tree some fruit may bear... /For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress; /And as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day!

 —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

 —Truman Capote

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

—Don Marquis

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

 —Oscar Wilde

Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.

 —Jonathan Swift

You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

 —Timothy Leary

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.

—Mark Twain

It takes a long time to become young.                   —Pablo Picasso

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.    —Kurt Vonnegut