Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.

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.

Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?

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

I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the skin above them had become a little loose. And I thought, 'And so it begins!'

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

My body - it's become, as I get older... not my friend.

Look after your body, because I'm 44, and things are happening that I never dreamed of - like bad joints and man boobs!

The older you get, the better you get to know you body.

The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

The one thing you learn as you get older is that the body will do what the body wants. All you can do is try to guide it a little.

The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.

Getting older is almost like changing species, from cute middle-aged, white-tailed deer, to yak.

A 70-year-old who takes good care of herself can have the biology of a 40-year-old. Conversely, a hard-living 30-year-old who has been inattentive to his health and well-being may have the biology of a man many years older.

I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.

My body is dropping so fast, my gynecologist wears a hard hat.

I'm now in my mid-thirties, so I look in the mirror and my face is changing, and I have a different relationship all of a sudden with myself. Your face changes, things change - that's just kind of what happens. It's hard, though, in this industry, because I think so much importance is put on how you look, and I'm not brave enough to be like, "You know what? I'm just going to let it happen. Whatever. I'm so cool with every line on my face."

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

My looks are changing obviously, so I fuss like any woman if I look tired or whatever, I put on weight and blah, blah. But some part of me is very relaxed with it all.