Beautiful old people are

Beautiful old people are works of art. Eleanor Roosevelt

Beautiful young people are

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. Eleanor Roosevelt

Human beings can be

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Frank Lloyd Wright

Age appears to be

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

The great secret that

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. Doris Lessing

Nature gives you the

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. Coco Chanel