Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.
You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.
I prefer old age to the alternative.
One does not grow old until he believes he has more to look back on than he has to look forward to.