“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. "

-Victor Hugo

"It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment"

-Andrew Wyeth

" Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

-Mark Twain

"A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer."

-Hesketh Pearson

"A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. "

-Pindar

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. "

- Aldous Huxley

"Being upbeat is the key to life. "

- David Frost

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success."

- Louisa May Alcott

"I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun ."

-Heather Graham

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

-Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. "

-Grandma Moses

"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..."

-Leon Edel

"The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old. "

-Rosalyn S. Yallow

"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. "

-Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle

"Old age is no place for sissies. "

- Bette Davis

"You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. "

-Billy Wilder

"It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others. "

-Maggie Smith

"Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour. "

-Fidel Castro

"To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary. "

-Ronald Blythe

"Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life. "

-Charles Eastman