Bill Vaughn

"Maturity is only a short break in adolescence."

Jules Feiffer

"Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed."

Bill Vaughn

"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 Vaughn

"Muscles come and go; flab lasts."

Bill Vaughn

"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

"Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking."

Bill Vaughn

"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

"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives."

Cato

"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."

Confucius