Ethel Barrymore Quotes

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

18 to 19 is definitely a brilliant age. Equally, 50 or 60 should be good. Everything is done; you can relax a bit.

You can have a full life after 50.

I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

A good life is a collection of happy memories.

It's a dream where you live a life that's powerful, one in which you can get married if you want to, raise kids if you want to, get educated to the limit of your capacity, and do what makes you happy, because we all are looking for the good life. We don't want to go through life with just fighting, fighting, fighting.

I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.

Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. "What do you do?".

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.