Old Quotes

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them!

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

At 80 it either hurts it doesn’t work.

You know you’re old if your walker has an airbag.

Sure I’m for helping the elderly. I’m going to be old myself some day. (in her 80s)

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.