Alice James Quotes

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

I'm 77. The only reason I'm ever shy about it is that people tend to think of you in terms of what they think that age is. I certainly don't feel any different than I did when I was 35, and my energy seems to be more than it was then.

You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.

People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

I like to think that I'm not old yet.

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.

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

I know that I am old, because even if I think I'm younger than everyone - but that's true - my way of hoping and continuing is that I am always in a younger position than the other one.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it.

I always say my age is connected with three Cs. In here, cuore, which means the heart. Up here, cervello, which is the brain. And, of course, down here: the coglioni. I no feel my age, I tell you.

We are not old unless we desire to be.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

I see a guy getting old. I try to not look in the mirror too much.

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

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.