Just Saying Goodbye

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

To stop aging, keep on raging. - Michael Forbes

Old age is no place for sissies. - Bette Davis

Cherish youth, but trust old age. - Pueblo Proverb

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

I want to die young at a ripe old age. - Ashley Montagu

Old age is always 15 years older than I am. - Bernard Baruch

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

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

I want to be your favourite hello and your hardest goodbye. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. - Christopher Morley

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

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

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

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

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. - C S Lewis

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table. - Joe Biden

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