Emanuel Celler Quotes

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

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

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

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

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

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

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

I want to age with some dignity.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Aging is a synonym for living.

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

I'm getting older. That's realistic. I can't reverse time. I can slow it down a little bit.

I softened in my old age.

Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not making fun of old people. In fact I think that's the goal of everybody here tonite. We all want to be an old person someday.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

We're not getting any younger.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.