Miles Franklin Quotes

When you get older, if you are healthy, is not a problem. If you don't have the health, then you go home.

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

Old age is no place for sissies.

My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.

We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life.

It isn't so bad getting old. It really isn't. As long as I can stay healthy.

Trouble is part of your life

I think the best thing that could happen is that I'll live to be a lot older than my mother lived.

All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.

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

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

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

Most people believe that aging is normal but nobody defines what normal aging is.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

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

I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

Well, Thanksgiving we'll all gather at my house for dinner and we usually do Christmas at Beau's house. My mom is still feisty and kicking. She's 92. I saw her last night and she published a book at 90. It's a wonderful book called "You Caught Me Kissing" and it's basically love-poems that she wrote for my dad. It's more than that, it's a wonderful book.