Life Expectancy by Age

Old age comes at a bad time. - Sue Banducci

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

To stop aging, keep on raging. - Michael Forbes

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

Middle age is a nice change from being young. - William Feather

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

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

Experience is a comb life gives you after you lose your hair. - Judith Stern

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

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow. - Proverb

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. - Bonnie Prudden

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

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. - Leon Trotsky

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

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

Middle age begins with the first mortgage and ends when you drop dead. - Herb Caen

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

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun, and fun is a lot more work. - Milton Berle

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

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

When a man retires his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. - Chi Chi Rodriguez

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

Advanced old age is when you sit in a rocking chair and can't get it going. - Eliakim Katz

W.C. Fields has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. - Gene Fowler

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age, and 'how well you look.' - Nelson Rockefeller

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

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

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

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off the lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. - Lillian Carter

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long. - Nikita I Panin

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

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it. - Golda Meir

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

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

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions. - George Carlin

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the post, we have arrived. - Knut Hamsun

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. - Bill Vaughan

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

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

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 the time in life when, after pulling in your stomach, you look as if you ought to pull in your stomach. - Unknown

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. - Andre Gide

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. - Ogden Nash

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

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