Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Jules Feiffer

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Doris Day

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughan

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
Bill Vaughan

No man is ever old enough to know better.
Holbrook Jackson

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.
Samuel Ullman

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira Gershwin

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Emily Dickinson

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Old age is a shipwreck.
Charles de Gaulle

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Louis Kronenberger

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Golda Meir

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt

Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
James Thurber