Sammy Davis Jr. Quotes

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.

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.

I used to think 63 was old.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

At 66 years of age, I feel about 20.

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

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

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.

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

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

Birthdays are getting harder as I get older.

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

For me, old age is just something that happens.

Honestly, I feel better at 35 than I did at 25.

Of course, no one wants to get older.