Life Expectancy by Age

Age is only a number. - Lexi Starling

Old age comes at a bad time. - Sue Banducci

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

Old age is the verdict of life. - Amelia E Barr

A prune is an experienced plum. - John H Trattner

Old age is no place for sissies. - Bette Davis

Old age is a wonderful disguise. - Katherine Applegate

Cherish youth, but trust old age. - Pueblo Proverb

Old age is like underwear, it creeps up on you. - Unknown

The old horse in the stable still yearns to run. - Mongolian Proverb

Aging wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. - Douglas MacArthur

The gods bestowed on him the gift of perpetual old age. - Oscar Wilde

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative. - Maurice Chevalier

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

There's one advantage to being 102. No peer pressure. - Dennis Wolfberg

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Middle age - later than you think and sooner than you expect. - Earl Wilson

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

I'm aging like fine wine. I'm getting complex and fruity. - Unknown

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

Middle Age: When you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms. - Georges Clemenceau

Middle age is when, wherever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater. - Denis Norden

Middle age is when everything new you feel is likely to be a symptom. - Laurence J Peter

Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fibre, not the toy. - Unknown

Old age at least gives me an excuse for not being very good at things. - Thomas Sowell

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

Middle age is when you are not inclined to exercise anything but caution. - Arthur Murray

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. - Orson Welles

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. - E Joseph Cossman

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. - William Feather

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day. - Lillian Carter

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

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. - Anne Bradstreet

A housefly has a longer life expectancy than the manager of a Premier League team. - Alex Ferguson

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

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage. - John A Holmes

Middle age is when it takes you all night to do once what once you used to do all night. - Kenny Everett

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. - John Mortimer

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

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

SABLE - A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Aging is the extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been. - David Bowie

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. - Doug Larson

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. - William Shakespeare

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. - W Somerset Maugham

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. - Doris Day

A man has reached middle age when he is warned to slow down by his doctor instead of the police. - Unknown

Middle age is when your classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. - Bennett Cerf

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. - Bill Bryson

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

While we drink, and call for garlands, for perfumes and for maidens, old age is creeping on us unperceived. - Juvenal

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. - Maggie Kuhn

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

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. - Mignon McLaughlin

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. - George Burns

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

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

I had a job selling hearing aids from door to door. It wasn't easy, because your best prospects never answered. - Bob Monkhouse

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock. - Ronald Reagan

Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity? - William Shakespeare

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold you have escaped, not from one master, but from many. - Plato