Erma Bombeck Quotes

I don't think of myself as old. Obviously I am - I have a free bus pass, I'm going to be a grandad in two months time, and my hip is giving me jip, so it's all telling me something I don't really want to hear.

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

I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

I don't feel old, except in the morning once in a while, when I can't turn over properly and say, "What's that? When did that happen?" Our brain doesn't accept that. We're geared to last.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

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.

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

I'm just too busy living every day to really spend a lot of time thinking 'am I old?' I'm this age. I am in this moment and in this life.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

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.

If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.

I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.