Golda Meir Quotes

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

Old age ain't for sissies

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

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

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

I am what I am - which is I have aged.

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.

I like old people when they have aged well.

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

Getting old is not for sissies.

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

I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can only answer "We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery."

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

I see a guy getting old. I try to not look in the mirror too much.

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

You have to embrace getting older.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

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

Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.