Gene Fowler

"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."

C. S. Lewis

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"

Satchel Paige

"I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too."

Liv Tyler

"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."

T. S. Eliot

"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap."

Bob Hope

"I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work."

William Ernest Hocking

"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that."

Lauren Bacall

"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."

Francis Bacon

"I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!"

Leo Rosten

"I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant."

Bill Vaughn

"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

Henri Frederic Amiel

"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity."

Bill Vaughn

"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."

Knut Hamsun

"In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long."

Pope Paul VI

"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."

Beverly Sills

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair."

Sam Ewing

"It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen."

Brigitte Bardot

"It takes a long time to become young."

Pablo Picasso

"It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable."

Anatole France

"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them."

Bill Vaughn

"It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel."

Bill Vaughn

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

Truman Capote

"Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries."

Bill Cosby

"Like many women my age, I am 28 years old."

Mary Schmich