Josh Billings Quotes

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

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

Of course, no one wants to get older.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

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

Old age is the verdict of life.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

We don't like to acknowledge that we're getting older. None of us do.

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

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.