Helen Rowland Quotes

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.

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

It sucks getting old.

I'm not the spring chicken anymore.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

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

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

You go from Pampers to Depends!

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Getting older is hard.

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

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.

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.