Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever – but would rather not.

There are no old people nowadays; they are either ‘wonderful for their age’ or dead.

The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are ‘age appropriate’ … for me that would be a shroud.

Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else… and usually is.

Old age is like learning a new profession; and not one of your own choosing.

This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible, this was terrible with raisins in it.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty.

It is better to waste one’s youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Jewelry takes people’s minds off your wrinkles.

Eighty is a wonderful age… especially if you’re ninety.

I’d like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.

At my age, an affair of the heart is a bypass.

Well Kerry, you’re 19 and you’re a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

People who say you’re just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.