Retired Fishermen Walker

Old age is no place for sissies. - Bette Davis

Old age is a wonderful disguise. - Katherine Applegate

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

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. - English Proverb

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore. - Sterling Hayden

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

I know I can't cheat death, but I can cheat old age. - Darwin Deason

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. - Robert H. Heinlein

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

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

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. - George Santayana

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

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

The farmer allows walkers across the field for free, but the bull charges. - Unknown

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. - Honore de Balzac

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. - Judith Regan

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

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

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. - Samuel Butler

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul. - David McCord

You can lead audiences to a half-dressed, aging pop star but you can't make them watch. - Megan Basham

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. - Victor Hugo

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike

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

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

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

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

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

Sailor: 1. A man who makes his living on water but never touches it on shore; 2. A wolf in ship's clothing. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

Aging: 1. A supposed ripening into wisdom that most Westerners attempt to delay as long as possible; 2. A one-way street with no stoplights. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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