Red Buttons Quotes

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65, I had Cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.

I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

I'm getting so old my insurance company sends me 1/2 a calendar!

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

Oh, to be seventy again!

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

Few know how to be old.