When you've become sick and tired of counting your birthdays, here's some light-hearted relief in a collection of hundreds of quotes about getting older and staying younger.

"People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately."

--Russell Baker

"The advantage of bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."

--Friedrich Wilhelm Neitzsche

"I'm 65, and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics; but if there were 15 months in every year, I'd only be 48."

--James Thurber