Tan Cheng Bock Quotes

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

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

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

I've lived in Los Angeles for over 70 years.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility. As you get older, you can just sit in a chair, wear anything you want, you know you can walk down; old people dress cool. You know they wear sweatpants. The elderly have it down.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

Getting older has been a bonus for me. I feel lucky that parts are being written for someone my age and I am around to play them.

I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

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.

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

Welcome to your house!

Someday, I'll make the right connection with the house I'm meant to be in.

My 40th birthday I held in an old-age home. My 50th I had at Pravda before it opened in New York. My 60th I had at Pastis. For my 70th, I thought, 'I don't need to have a celebrity party this year. I'm going to go take my oldest, closest friends to Paris.'