David Niven Quotes

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

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

I have no desire to be 60 years old and standing on the side of the pitch.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

I'm not the spring chicken anymore.

while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

I don't feel any older now than when I was 70.

Even my stuntman is old.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

You get old, you slow down.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

I do not really think about age. I am just sort of trying to get as much done before I get old and can't.