Old men need applause too.
Old Quotes
Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to […]
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Life begins at 40 – but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.
I feel so sorry for folks who don’t like to grow old. I revel in my years. They enrich me. If God should say to me, ‘I will let you begin over again and you may have your youth back once more,’ I should say, ‘If You do not mind, I prefer to go on […]
The same old charitable lie, Repeated as the years scoot by; Perpetually makes a hit – “You really haven’t changed a bit!”
It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I’m quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.
Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked.
As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don’t.
