Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, "See if you can blow this out."
Jerry Seinfeld

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
Eric Hoffer

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Eric Hoffer

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
Rose Kennedy

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor Hugo

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
Victor Hugo

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
Gertrude Stein

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Elvis Presley

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
Elvis Presley

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
John Maynard Keynes

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes

In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.
Brett Favre