Horace Deets Quotes

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Getting older is a fact of life.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

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

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

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

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.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

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

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

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

For me, old age is just something that happens.

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

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

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

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

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

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

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.