Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

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.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.

In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.

It really sucks getting older. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll just glance over my shoulder to make sure nothing has fallen off.

After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.

Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

There's nothing good about being my age.

The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.

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

The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

I'm way hot," he muttered. "But I don't feel sick. Just — way hot." Fang

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.