Antiphanes Quotes

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

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

You get old, you slow down.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

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

Even my stuntman is old.

Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way.

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

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.'

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

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

The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.

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 am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.