Celebrities Past on Aging
"If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in-law." (Eva Gabor)
"Old age comes at a bad time." (Ed Sullivan)
"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it." (Golda Meir)
"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up; then, you forget to pull your zipper down." (Rob Reiner)
"Old people shouldn't eat healthy foods. They need all the preservatives they can get." (Bob Hope)
"At my age, flowers scare me." (George Burns)
"It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit." (Ed Sullivan)
"The years between 55 and 75 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down." (T.S Elliot)
"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us.. at age 40, we don't care what they think of us... at age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all." (Ann Landers)
"When I was young, I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties, I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then, and I'm labeled senile." (Milton Berle)
"The important thing to remember is that I'm probably going to forget." (Martin Scorsese)
"We don't grow older, we grow riper." (Pablo Picasso)
"It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone." (Andy Rooney)
"The older I get, the better I used to be." (Lee Trevino)
"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they're cramming for their final exam." (George Carlin)
"Everything seems to slow down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips." (Elizabeth Taylor)
"You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks." (Dennis Quaid)
"Looking fifty is great — if you're sixty." (Joan Rivers)
"Time may be a great Healer, but it's a lousy Beautician." (Zsa Zsa Gabor)