S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

Chinese people age overnight.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?

Yeah, if anyone tries to tell you 60 is the new 40... don't believe them.

Some feel old at 45.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

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

I'm an older generation.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.