What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. - Brigitte Bardot
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. - George Sand
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder, but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all. - William Makepeace Thackeray
There are days of oldness, and then one gets young again. - Katherine Butler Hathaway
At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage. - John Andrew Holmes
Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning. - Bob Hope
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. - Gail Sheehy
What I wouldn't give to be seventy again! - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. - Robert Southey
In a dream you are never eighty. - Anne Sexton
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. - Dorothy Thompson
The first hundred years are the hardest. - Wilson Mizner
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. - Franklin P. Adams
Sixteen candles make a lovely light
But not as bright as your eyes tonight. - Luther Dixon
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men. - Colleen McCullough
At seventy-seven it is time to be earnest. - Samuel Johnson
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. - Orson Welles
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. - Anna Magnani
