Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. (Mark Twain)

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy. ( Oscar Wilde )

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot. ( Oscar Wilde )

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. (George Bernard Shaw)

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ( Benjamin Franklin)

To remain young while growing old is the highest blessing. ( German Proverb)

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ( Tom Wilson)

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. (Victor Hugo)

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. ( Benjamin Franklin)

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. ( Henry Ford)

When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. (Marty Bucella)

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. (Mark Twain)
Only your friends steal your books. (Voltaire)

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ( Austin Phelps )

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.(Seneca)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. (Sir Richard Steele)

A room without books is like a body without a soul. (Seneca)

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them. ( George Bernard Shaw)

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested.(Francis Bacon)

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.(Mark Twain)

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ( Henry David Thoreau)

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. (Oscar Wilde)

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. (Henry Ward Beecher)

A good book has no ending. (R.D. Cumming)