Claudette Colbert Quotes

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

For guys, growing older is fine. Gray hair and wrinkles aren't considered a bad thing.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.

I'm enjoying the aging process and the gray hair and the wrinkles.

The older I get, the more grays are popping out. They're definitely all over my beard.

The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded, too.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

A woman has the age she deserves.

I'm not 20 anymore, and I feel it.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.

I am in the prime of my senility.

But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter.