Marie Dressler Quotes

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

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.

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.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Growing old is not growing up.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.

I've never been scared of aging.

I softened in my old age.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.

I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can only answer "We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery."

Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

As you get older, there are going to be a few more challenges, but thankfully I'm still feeling good.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.

I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.