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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. -- Bob Hope
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. -- Elvis Presley
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. -- Harrison Ford
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. -- Mark Twain
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. -- George Burns
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
You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.' -- Jerry Seinfeld
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. -- Josh Billings
Getting old is not for sissies. -- Bette Davis
Getting old is not for sissies, kid. -- Frank Langella
I may be getting old, but not foolish. -- Elia Kazan
I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks. -- James Rosenquist
I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face. -- Charlie Bell
You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks. -- Will Rogers
You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look. -- Alan King
You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work. -- Hy Gardner
Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do. -- Karl Pilkington
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. -- Robert Capa
You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it. -- Joan Rivers
One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet. -- Lee Marvin
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation. -- Bruce Springsteen
Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go. -- Kate Beckinsale
The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea. -- Nick Cave
The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years. -- Goldie Hawn
I know I'm supposed to say ageing doesn't bother me, then suddenly you're like, 'Yeah, I care about it, I really worry about it. I'm getting old. I'm old!' -- Tracey Emin
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there. -- Rick Reilly
I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives. -- Chuck Palahniuk
When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none. -- Carine Roitfeld
In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention. -- Rowan Williams
I have an African gray parrot; her name is Eli. We thought she was a boy. And a blue-streaked lory named Marco. He's 10. And a yellow and green parakeet, Petey. He's very cute, but he's getting old. -- Roz Chast
We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out. -- Melissa Etheridge
I actually get a lot of messages with people saying, 'What's a Marvin Gaye?' and, I mean... Oh, wow. I must be getting old, because someone who was born in 2004 just asked me what a Marvin Gaye was. -- Charlie Puth
What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility? -- Paul Ryan
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise -- Barbara Kingsolver
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. -- Bernie Mac
Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old. -- Guy Oseary
Getting old isn't for sissies. -- Bette Davis
I'm not getting old I'm evolving. -- Keith Richards
I'm getting back to my old roots. -- Tiger Woods
I'm not getting old. I'm getting better. -- Shirley Bassey
Getting old ain't for the faint of heart. -- Anthony Hopkins
I'm looking forward to getting fat and old. -- Richard C. Armitage
I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started! -- Marilyn Monroe
Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old. -- Olivia Newton-John
Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear. -- Norman Reedus
What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old. -- James Lee Burke
Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else. -- Nicole Hollander
Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem -- Mitch Albom
Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore. -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
I'm getting so old my insurance company sends me 1/2 a calendar! -- Rodney Dangerfield
I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church. -- Jimmy Buffett
You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old. -- Enid Bagnold
Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old. -- Spencer Johnson
I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill. -- Ben Stein
I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow. -- Javier Bardem
I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy -- Max von Sydow
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. -- George Burns
I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty. -- Shirley MacLaine
It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear. -- Jonathan Evison
The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you -- Seneca the Younger
When you start thinking about death more than sex, you know you're getting old. -- Nick Nolte
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late. -- Ben Folds
I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore. -- Leo Tolstoy
You know you're getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead. -- John Mendoza
I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old. -- Carol Grace
The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old. -- Richard Virenque
Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way. -- Chick Corea
Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore. -- Walt Disney
The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed. -- Sherwood Anderson
Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man. -- Harrison Ford
Miss Marple' enjoys every minute of her existence and is not worried about getting old. -- Geraldine McEwan
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. -- Anne Bradstreet
I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. -- George Burns
This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. -- Teri Hatcher
The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy. -- Steve Coogan
The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup. -- Robert Frost
It's the same old thing getting lost Day 'N' Nite young and lost in the pain. -- Kid Cudi
My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right. -- Scott Adams
I see a guy getting old. I try to not look in the mirror too much. -- Mark Wahlberg
the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old. -- Mary Lee Settle
It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones. -- John Maynard Keynes
What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death! -- Arthur Rimbaud
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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are. -- Malcolm Forbes
It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me. -- Katherine Dunn
One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake. -- Bette Davis
You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me. -- Noel Gallagher
There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way. -- Gary D. Schmidt
I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me. -- John Scalzi
It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old. -- Emile Coue
How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she? -- Gail Parent
You know how you can tell that you're getting really old? Nobody says the word 'death' around you anymore. -- M. Emmet Walsh
The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing. -- Patricia McConnell
Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life. -- Louise Hay
You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. -- Joan Rivers
You know how to tell when you're getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist. -- Red Skelton
Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people. -- Mike Davidson
Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet. -- Meat Loaf
Do I know my lines? As I'm getting older, they're getting harder to learn. The old brain cells are deteriorating. -- Pauline Quirke
I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed. -- Martha Stewart
I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary. -- Sergio Aragones
The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944) -- Robert Capa
Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive. -- Amy Poehler
As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better. -- Virginia Woolf
Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better! -- Ingrid Bergman
Be happy when you don't notice that you're getting old, it means you have had a great life so far. -- Julia Serano
The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable two people can do in bed together is R-E-A-D. -- Denis Norden
There's nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares? -- Joan Jett
There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise. -- Dharma Mittra
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are. -- Alan Alda

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