Laurence Housman Quotes

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.

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

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

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

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

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.

I never expected to live this long.

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

One of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't.

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

I never thought I would live this long.

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."

I think the best thing that could happen is that I'll live to be a lot older than my mother lived.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

Often it is fatal to live too long.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

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

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.