Mary Martin Quotes

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

No one looks forward to getting old do they?

After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.

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.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.