Victor Borge Quotes

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

You have to embrace getting older.

I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

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

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

I am what I am - which is I have aged.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

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