“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.”

“The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.”

“By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.”

“We could certainly slow the aging process down it if had to work its way through Congress.”

“I didn’t get old on purpose, it just happened. If you’re lucky, it could happen to you.”

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has his own son who thinks that he’s wrong.”