Carol Leifer Quotes

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

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

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

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

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

I intend to grow old very disgracefully.

I am in the prime of my senility.

Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.

Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts.

I'm just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone's welcome to join me.

I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

Age is just a number baby, what are you now? 40?

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.