Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a read more

Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark profound,
Our deafness each one laughs about.
Then reason's light with falling ray
Doth but a trembling flicker cast.
Honor to age, ye children pay!
Alas! my fifty years are past!

Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age.

Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age.

He has grown aged in this world of woe,
In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.
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He has grown aged in this world of woe,
In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.
So that no wonder waits him.

We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.

We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.