When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

- Victor Hugo

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

- Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men,and prosperity makes monsters.

- Victor Hugo

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

- Victor Hugo

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.

- Victor Hugo

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

- Victor Hugo

In youth we learn in age we understand.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

- Alexander Hamilton

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

- Soren Kierkegaard

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

- Bertrand Russell

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

- Bertrand Russell

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Youth has no age.

- Pablo Picasso

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

- Phyllis Diller

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

- Paulo Coelho

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

- Joan Collins