John Mortimer Quotes

I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!

Getting old is not for sissies.

You get old, you slow down.

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

Nobody stays young forever.

It sucks getting old.

I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

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

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace but also the bad ear and flawed figure of her mother, that would smile too much and squint too often and spend the last decades of her life creaming away the wrinkles made in youth until she finally gave up and wore a collar of pears to hide a wattle; here was the ordinary sadness of the world.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

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

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

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'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

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 wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.