Shane Leslie Quotes

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

I'm old, not dead.

I am in the prime of my senility.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

I am 58. That is pretty old, for God's sake. I look pretty good for my age, and I am enjoying that.

I don't believe in giving in to old age.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

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

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

I don't feel any older now than when I was 70.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.