Getting Old Quotes

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Mark Twain

Friends, Young, Old

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'
Jerry Seinfeld

Old, Getting, Cake

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old, Getting, Older

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope

Old, Getting, Cake

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
Andy Rooney

Life, Long, Living

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
George Burns

Down, Old, Else

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

Time, Old, Else

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.
Josh Billings

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Eugene O'Neill

Love, Thinking, Thought

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?
Paul Ryan

Leadership, Time, Blame

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Age, Old, Forgetting

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Harrison Ford

Book, Black, After

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.
Shirley MacLaine

Beauty, Great, Old

I may be getting old, but not foolish.
Elia Kazan

May, Old, Getting

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.
Joseph Barbera

Old, Personal, Getting

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
Ben Stein

Old, Getting, Scared

Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
Randy Johnson

Time, Game, Writing

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
Steve Coogan

Funny, Great, Old

I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old.
Mike Wallace

Today, Old, Smoking

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.
Robert Capa

War, Old, Getting

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.
Rowan D. Williams

Life, Health, Care

Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old.
Guy Oseary

Love, Success, Time

I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.
Norman Jewison

Old, Getting, Interested

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.
Richard Virenque

Old, Difficult, Getting

When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.
Stephanie Beacham

Two, Old, Sometimes

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.
Charlie Bell

Old, Getting, Face

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Lillian Gordy Carter

Time, Old, Else

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.
Rick Reilly

Together, Remember, Old

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