Favorite quotes

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

If you’re starting to look wrinkled, don’t worry. It covers the scars.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

But it’s hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.