Len Goodman Quotes

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

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

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

You get old, you slow down.

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.

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.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

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

We're not getting any younger.

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

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

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.

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

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.

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.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

Somehow, when you think about yourself in old age, you think you're going to be this completely different person that you don't even recognize - because you can't imagine it, you know?