To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Bernard Baruch

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul Richter 

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. 
Plautus

From our birthday, until we die,
Is but the winking of an eye.
William Butler Yeats

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. 
Virginia Woolf

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.
Robert Orben

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift

Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many. 
Plato

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

Getting old ain't for sissies.
Betty Davis

Of late I appear
To have reached that stage
When people who look old
Who are only my age.
Richard Armour

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark Twain

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
Phyllis Diller

Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
C.E.M. Joad

Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.
J. P. Sears

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized
for a crime you have not committed. 
Anthony Powell