Mardy Grothe Quotes

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Old age is but a second childhood.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

Old age is second childhood.

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

Few people know how to be old.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over, and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

Oh, to be seventy again!

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

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.