Golda Meir Quotes

Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.

I don't think of myself as old. Obviously I am - I have a free bus pass, I'm going to be a grandad in two months time, and my hip is giving me jip, so it's all telling me something I don't really want to hear.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

I'm getting so old my insurance company sends me 1/2 a calendar!

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

Few people know how to be old.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

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

I like gettin' old.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

I feel old.

I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.

I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more.

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

I'm old, not dead.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

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 not 20 anymore, and I feel it.

I am in the prime of my senility.

I've finally become an old guy.