Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. -Jonathan Swift
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. -Lillian Gish
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. -P.G. Wodehouse
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. -Harold Coffin
We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups. -Margaret Atwood
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. -Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. -Author Unknown
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it. -Bernard Berenson
I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all. -Jawaharlal Nehru
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. -Henry Ford
