Bill Vaughn

"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."

Dwight L. Moody

"So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!"

Calista Flockhart

"Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts."

Martin Buxbaum

"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball."

Doug Larson

"The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis."

Leon Edel

"The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity."

Paul Tillich

"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood."

Logan P. Smith

"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."

Doris Lessing

"The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears."

Bill Vaughn

"The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer."

Joan Collins

"The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it."

Doris Day

"The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them."

Bill Vaughn

"The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified."

Bob Wells

"The trick is growing up without growing old."

Casey Stengel

"The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine."

Bill Vaughn

"The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older."

Hume Cronyn

"The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas."

Bill Vaughn

"There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later."

Mignon McLaughlin

"There is still no cure for the common birthday."

John Glenn

"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going."

John B. Priestly

"There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow."

Fay Weldon

"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."

Amos Bronson Alcott

"To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."

John Burroughs