Jerry Lewis Quotes

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.

I am too old to think.

Few people know how to be old.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

Getting older is a fact of life.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe it.' It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

I quite like being old.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.