Life Expectancy by Age

Age is only a number. - Lexi Starling

If you rest, you rust. - Helen Hayes

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

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

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

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

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

Middle age - later than you think and sooner than you expect. - Earl Wilson

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

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. - Bob Hope

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

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

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

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

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. - Josh Billings

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. - Joseph Addison

Middle age is when you are not inclined to exercise anything but caution. - Arthur Murray

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. - Orson Welles

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

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. - William Feather

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. - Francis Bacon

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

We look forward to a disorderly, vigorous, unhonored and disreputable old age. - Don Marquis

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

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

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. - Anne Bradstreet

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

My mother is no spring chicken although she has got as many chemicals in her as one. - Edna Everage

Children are a great comfort in your old age, and they help you reach it faster, too. - Lionel Kauffman

Middle age is when you're old enough to know better but still young enough to do it. - Ogden Nash

Middle age is when it takes you all night to do once what once you used to do all night. - Kenny Everett

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. - Aristotle

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

Aging is the extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been. - David Bowie

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. - Doug Larson

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. - Doug Larson

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. - William Shakespeare

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up. - Bob Hope

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

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

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

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

Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. - Ogden Nash

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

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

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

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

Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity? - William Shakespeare

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