My three favorites.
- “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” — Mark Twain.
- “The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.” — Oscar Wilde.
- “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” — Andrew Carnegie.
- “You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.” — Maurice Chevalier.
- “Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.” — Victor Hugo.
- “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.” — Coco Chanel.
- “I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.” — T. S. Eliot.
- “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” — Henry Ford.
- “Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.” — Maya Angelou.
- “I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.” — Francis Bacon.