Life Expectancy by Age

Age is only a number. - Lexi Starling

If you rest, you rust. - Helen Hayes

Old age comes at a bad time. - Sue Banducci

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

A prune is an experienced plum. - John H Trattner

Old age is a wonderful disguise. - Katherine Applegate

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

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

Middle age is a nice change from being young. - William Feather

Aging wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. - Douglas MacArthur

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

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

Middle age is when everything new you feel is likely to be a symptom. - Laurence J Peter

Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fibre, not the toy. - Unknown

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

Middle age begins with the first mortgage and ends when you drop dead. - Herb Caen

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. - Joe Gores

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age, and 'how well you look.' - Nelson Rockefeller

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

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

SABLE - A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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

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

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

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. - Doris Day

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

The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit. - Jason Love

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

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. - Mignon McLaughlin

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions. - George Carlin

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the post, we have arrived. - Knut Hamsun

I'm grateful that I never was that senior athlete who realized she'd done nothing but train all her life. - Clara Hughes

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

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

One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age. - Oscar Wilde

I had a job selling hearing aids from door to door. It wasn't easy, because your best prospects never answered. - Bob Monkhouse

Middle age is the time in life when, after pulling in your stomach, you look as if you ought to pull in your stomach. - Unknown

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

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