Phyllis Diller Quotes

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

Old age is but a second childhood.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there's likely to be some action, and even a few exciting plays, before the game draws to an end.

Old age is second childhood.

Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Few people know how to be old.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

You get old, you slow down.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.