Ogden Nash Quotes

Sometimes I'll watch teenagers and find myself not quite believing I'm older than they are - even wondering, delusionally, if they can see any difference between us.

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, "Dad, I just can't run the quarter with you anymore, unless I bring something to read."

Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese.

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?

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!

It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.

Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.

Looking 50 is great, if you're 60.

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.

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

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.