Georges Clemenceau Quotes

Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.

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

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

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

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 gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

I'll be 50 years old tomorrow and that means, among other things, that now Bob Dole can start telling jokes about me.

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

Old age is second childhood.

I'm retarded - I mean I'm retired.

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.