“I suspect he was never young, was just born straight forty years old.”

“…I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.”

“Some men are born old, and some never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful we are always young, and at last die in youth, even when years would count us old.”

“I am a hundred and forty six years old and this is not my first unwinnable war.”

“Waking up, at forty years old, had become somewhat difficult, not only that morning, but since he was thirty.”

“LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.”

“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”

“He was as young as twenty years allowed, and as old as it could make him.”

“Her handwriting in these pencilled jottings, made forty-five years ago, is exactly as it is today: this makes me suspect, when I am not with her, that she is a closet intellectual.”

“A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.”