Fred Allen Quotes

My face doesn't look the same way it did at 39. My body doesn't look the same way it did at 39.

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.

I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.

Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice.

I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

Some grow young, some grow cold...

We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here

Robert Redford used to be such a handsome man and now look at him: everything has dropped, expanded and turned a funny color.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

Balding if God's way of showing you are only human... He takes the hair off your head and puts it in your ears.

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man's average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time , while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.

One time I saw an old man in a hurry and I thought, 'That makes sense.'

Age - it's the one mountain you can't overcome.

If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.