Once again, WS Gilbert nailed it over a century ago:
There is beauty in extreme old age
Do you fancy you are elderly enough?
Information I’m requesting
On a subject interesting:
Is a maiden all the better when she’s tough?
Katisha:
Throughout this wide dominion
It’s the general opinion
That she’ll last a good deal longer when she’s tough.
Ko-Ko:
Are you old enough to marry, do you think?
Won’t you wait till you are eighty in the shade?
There’s a fascination frantic
In a ruin that’s romantic;
Do you think you are sufficiently decayed?
Katisha:
To the matter that you mention
I have given some attention,
And I think I am sufficiently decayed.