A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age. - Robert Benchley
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn by ourselves, from a book. - Cyril Connolly
You take all the experience and judgement of men over fifty out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it. - Henry Ford
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends! - George Eliot
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eye'd,
Such seems your beauty still. - William Shakespeare
Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend. - John Lyle
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life. - Jean De La Fontaine
An old man loved is winter with flowers. - German proverb
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. - James Russell Lowell
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. - Ogden Nash
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. - Oliver Goldsmith
We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same. - Jonathon Swift
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,... - Robert Browning
For he's a jolly good fellow,
For he's a jolly good fellow,
For he's a jolly good fellow,
Which nobody can deny. - Traditional song
You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look. - Sir Seymour Hicks
