Aging Humour Sayings

#1. The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.

Michelle Franklin

#2. I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.

Hilton Als

#3. The older you get, the closer your loves are to the surface. She was breathing rarefied air, the ether you come upon at high altitudes. I understood finally how long-held grievances and petty smallnesses might get burned off, and pure creativity and humour remain.

Elizabeth Hay

#4. No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. One grey hair appeared on my head
I plucked it out with my hand.
It answered me: You have prevailed against me alone -
What will you do when my army comes after me?

Yehuda HaLevi

#6. We make our food very similar to cocaine now.

Kerry Patterson

#7. It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.

Samuel Beckett

#8. A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

Stephen Colbert

#9. How many people cdan play a piano? . . . Practically anybody who has ever been a child. It is a standard parlor accomplishment.

Dorothy West

#10. What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

William Shakespeare

#11. Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

Hesiod

#12. Sovereign is the source.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. So many places I've never been to ... I have a whole world to experience before it's too late, and I'm keeping a journal of it all as I go, so I'll be able to enjoy the world all over again when I get back.

Terry Pratchett