"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln "Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life." - Robert Southey "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." - Mark Twain "I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel." - Elizabeth Arden "None are as old as those who have outlived enthusiasm." - Henry David Thoreau "Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese." - Billie Burke "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." - Mark Twain "Everyone is the age of their heart." - Guatemalan Proverb "Age is a high price to pay for maturity." - Tom Stoppard "Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age." - Florida Scott-Maxwell "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." - Alfonso of Aragon "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." - Robert Frost "Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age." - Jeanne Moreau "Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative." - Maurice Chevalier "Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough." - Groucho Marx "Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips." - John Wagner "They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body." Unknown "Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man." - Trotsky "Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up." - John Wagner "Age is a slowing down of everything except fear." - Mignon McLaughlin "Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age." - Victor Hugo "People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live... [We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born." - (Letter to Otto Juliusburger) Albert Einstein "There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom." - Cornelia Otis Skinner "No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement." - Florida Scott-Maxwell "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." - H.L. Mencken "Age merely shows what children we remain." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long." - Nikita Ivanovich Panin "Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone." - Jim Fiebig "The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." - Madeleine L'Engle "The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." - Doug Larson "Live your life and forget your age." - Norman Vincent Peale "A woman has the age she deserves." - Coco Chanel "A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, grieve and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves." - Anonymous A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces." - Michel de Montaigne "Old age is fifteen years older than I am." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Remember... It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. Enjoy life, enjoy simple things!