Nancy Astor Quotes

18 to 19 is definitely a brilliant age. Equally, 50 or 60 should be good. Everything is done; you can relax a bit.

My later years are my treasure years.

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can only answer "We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery."

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

I've never been scared of aging.

The biggest lie about getting older is that excitement and growth end with youth.

I used to think 63 was old.

I feel as though going into middle age really suits me.

I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.

Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.