“ Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. ”
“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. ”
“ Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. ”
“ You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. ”
“ A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ”
“ Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ”
“ Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ”
“ Beauty and folly are old companions. ”
“ You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears as young as your hope, as old as your despair. ”
“ Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. ”
“ I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. ”
“ I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. ”
“ In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. ”
“ A man growing old becomes a child again. ”
“ Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. ”
“ To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. ”
“ In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. ”
“ If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. ”
“ To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. ”
“ I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap. ”