Pat Burns Quotes

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

My parents were fine at 85. So 85's nothing. 100 is another thing. I have a friend whose mother is about to turn 101, and it's not great.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

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

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

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

I have been asked how I grow old so easily. The answer is: I give all my time to it.

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.

An old man in a house is a good sign in a house.

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

At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

At 91, every day is a birthday.

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

I find, to my amazement, that I have reached the age of 90!

For me, old age is just something that happens.

I was once six feet tall, but at 85, I'm now five feet four.