“What though youth gave love and roses,
Age still leaves us friends and wine.”

“Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”

W. Somerset Maugham book The Summing Up

“T is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.”

Edward Moore (1712–1757) English dramatist and writer

“5515. What's sowed in Youth, will be reaped in Age.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”

Mencius (-372–-289 BC) Chinese philosopher

“Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.”

Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766) king of Poland