Dick Cavett Quotes

I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.

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.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

I still think I'm 28. I'm 73. I think I'm 28, though, except that I won't get into a fight with anybody because I just had a pacemaker put in.

To me, 60 isn't old. It's a blessing to have my health. I still feel like I'm in my 30s or 40s.

The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

I don't think about my physical age.

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

I've got an old body.

How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

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

Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.

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

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.