Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

I've finally become an old guy.

Turns out I'm getting old.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

I feel old.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

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

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

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

Of course, no one wants to get older.

Some feel old at 45.

I used to think 63 was old.

I feel a bit weird about turning 40. It makes you feel like you've passed over on to the other side a bit.