Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.

What can you say when your husband says: 'You can't expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older."

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible.

The fingers must be educated the thumb is born knowing.

It is not death we fear but the thought of it.

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes.

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my...

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to b...

In my youth poverty enriched me but now I can afford wealth.

I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.

Prosperity tries the fortunate adversity the great.

When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant.

Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.