But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.