Robert Benchley Quotes

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.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

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

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

I do not really think about age. I am just sort of trying to get as much done before I get old and can't.

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

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

It isn't so bad getting old. It really isn't. As long as I can stay healthy.

It sucks getting old.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

When you get older, if you are healthy, is not a problem. If you don't have the health, then you go home.

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

It really sucks getting older. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll just glance over my shoulder to make sure nothing has fallen off.

All would live long, but none would be old.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

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.

I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

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.