Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Growing Old.

The repository contains 60 quotes in the category “Growing Old.”
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I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Groucho Marx
1890 — 1977

How old would you be if you didn’t know when you were born?

Unknown

The older you get, the more you tell it like it used to be.

Unknown

Age 75:

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

Casey Stengel
1890 — 1975

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Woody Allen
1935 —     

Once you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

Charles M. Schulz
1922 — 2000

Those of you in your twenties have the feeling that time is something of which you have an endless supply. Again, take it from someone who has been on this planet a good deal longer than most of you have, that is not the case.

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist
1924 — 2005

Commencement address
Marymount University
2002

By the time you know what to do, you’re too old to do it.

Ted Williams
1918 — 2002

There are three stages in an actor’s career: Who is John Amos? Get me John Amos. Get me a young John Amos.

John Amos
1939 —     

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

Maurice Chevalier
1888 — 1972

Old age is no place for sissies.

Bette Davis
1908 — 1989

I ain’t what I used to be, but who the hell is?

Dizzy Dean
1910 — 1974

Be nice to your children, for they will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller
1917 —     

You know you are getting old when all the names in your black book have MD after them.

Harrison Ford
1942 —     

Upon signing a long-term contract with Warner Brothers at age 85:

At 85 you can only think ahead for the next fifty years or so.

Chuck Jones
1912 — 2002

I don’t want to retire. I’m not that good at crossword puzzles.

Norman Mailer
1923 — 2007

Girls used to come up to me and say, “My sister loves you.” Now girls come up to me and say, “My mother loves you.”

Lee Mazzilli
1955 —     

Senesence begins and middle age ends the day your descendants outnumber your friends.

Ogden Nash
1902 — 1971

At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves.

George Orwell
1903 — 1950

Time wounds all heels.

Dorothy Parker
1893 — 1967

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