Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.

I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.

Age is not our fault.

I have been asked how I grow old so easily. The answer is: I give all my time to it.

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

I'm a fine wine: I just get better with age. Actually, I'm like the Benjamin Button of the Combine. The older I get, the younger I look and feel.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not making fun of old people. In fact I think that's the goal of everybody here tonite. We all want to be an old person someday.

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

Someone told me you start liking sex when you hit 30--but we'll see.

I like old people when they have aged well.

Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.

Some grow young, some grow cold...

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.

In a relationship, it's so important that a man knows how much you physically desire him. When he wears that shirt that makes him look sexy, tell him he's sexy! If he wears a cologne you like, say "I can't resist that smell on you".

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!