I'm So Old

Old age is life's parody. - Simone de Beauvoir

Old age is a wonderful disguise. - Katherine Applegate

Cherish youth, but trust old age. - Pueblo Proverb

I'm not aging, I'm marinating. - Unknown

I know I can't cheat death, but I can cheat old age. - Darwin Deason

If youth had but the knowledge and old age the strength. - French Proverb

Fourty is the old age of youth; 50 is the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. - Daniel F E Auber

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. - Ralph Richardson

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. - George Santayana

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is first thought. - Emily Dickinson

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. - John Wagner

Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age. - Chinese Proverb

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. - Oscar Wilde

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. - Joe Gores

Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day. - Faith Hill

In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. - Josh Billings

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. - Joseph Addison

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward. - May Sarton

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. - Judith Regan

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. - Francis Bacon

We look forward to a disorderly, vigorous, unhonored and disreputable old age. - Don Marquis

Old age takes away what we've inherited and gives us what we've earned. - Gerald Brenan

More people would live to a ripe old age if they weren't too busy providing for it. - Unknown

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. - Aristotle

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. - Doug Larson

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. - Victor Hugo

The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit. - Jason Love

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

When it comes to old age we're all in the same boat, only some of us have been aboard a little longer. - Leo Probst

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment. - Willem Dafoe

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. - C S Lewis

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley

I'm grateful that I never was that senior athlete who realized she'd done nothing but train all her life. - Clara Hughes

I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process. It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance? - Unknown

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. - Mark Twain

One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age. - Oscar Wilde

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age. - Mark Batterson

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. - Fay Weldon

Not one of them who took up in his youth with his opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction. - Plato