Mamie Van Doren Quotes

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

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

Live to 97 and you can do anything.

We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

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

My parents were fine at 85. So 85's nothing. 100 is another thing. I have a friend whose mother is about to turn 101, and it's not great.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

You know you're old when you're asked, 'Do you have hobbies?'

You reach a certain age, and you're so proud that you're walking and breathing and loving and working and all of that at 90.

Becoming eighty is a matter of life or death. I chose life. It is a much better position to be in, and it's easier on your back.

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

I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.

Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.

I don't know how to deal with being 80.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

Without your health, everything else means nothing.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.