117 quotes found
“Try to accept each other for what you are and don't point out the fact that the hair he's losing on his head is now growing out of his nose - and his ears.”
“Actually being sixty-five isn't so bad. As a matter of fact I rather like being called a sexagenarian. At this time of life it sounds like flattery.”
“I have everything I had twenty years ago only it's all a little bit lower.”
“I may be forty but every morning when I get up I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately there's never one around.”
“To what do you attribute your advanced age? Well I suppose I must attribute it to the fact that I have not died.”
“Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.”
“Old age is like everything else to make a success of it you got to start young.”
“I was just thinking when I was a young girl I never knew what every young girl was supposed to know. And now I am going to be an old lady I don't know what every old lady is supposed to know.”
“Life begins at fifty but so does bad eyesight arthritis and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same listeners.”
“Women don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty but when you get to be seventy it stretches into a condor.”
“When Julia Child was asked to what she credited her longevity she replied "Red meat and gin."”
“The secret of staying young is to live honestly eat slowly and lie about your age.”
“I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.”
“There are three ages of man: youth middle age and "Gee you look good."”
“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.”
“If you think a lot of the comments made tonight are not funny but are immature and tasteless that's only because the sense of humor is the first thing to go.”
“You're only young once but you can always be immature.”
