Stephen Phillips Quotes

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

Presumably, with age, you mellow down.

I softened in my old age.

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

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

As you get older, you find that everything looks better more natural!

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Few people know how to be old.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

It's a good thing to be old. Because when you get older, that means you haven't died yet, right? And when I do get older, I want to have the grace to be proud of it, not to lie about it or try to fight it.

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.