We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.