Top 100 You're Getting Old Quotes
#1. How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting ... old? If I'm ... old, then what is she?
Gail Parent
#2. Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.
Susan Sontag
#3. You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.
Hy Gardner
#4. 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
#5. You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
Jimmy Dean
#6. 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
#7. Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.
-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)
J. Matthew Nespoli
#8. RON: The trolls could be going to a party, the giants to a wedding, you could be getting bad dreams because you're worried about Albus, and your scar could be hurting because you're getting old.
HARRY: Getting old? Thanks, mate.
J.K. Rowling
#9. 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
#10. Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you're getting old.
Jeanette Winterson
#11. 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
#12. It's like, say, if you were a dog. You notice that you're getting old, and you look at your human and you think, 'Why isn't this human getting old?' ... But now we're the human looking out and imagining a different human.
Cynthia Kenyon
#13. When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Mark Twain
#14. You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
Joan Rivers
#15. When you start thinking about death more than sex, you know you're getting old.
Nick Nolte
#16. I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better."
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#17. You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Harrison Ford
#18. You know how to tell when you're getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist.
Red Skelton
#19. You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.
Mike Connolly
#20. You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope
#21. Be happy when you don't notice that you're getting old, it means you have had a great life so far.
Julia Serano
#22. You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.
David Brenner
#23. You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.
Michael Beschloss
#24. Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live.
Janet Turpin Myers
#25. It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.
Jonathan Evison
#26. Can you believe it? Here's a 15-year-old girl pinching pennies to buy strainers and whetstones and tempura pots when all the girls in school are getting huge allowances and buying beautiful dresses and shoes. Don't you feel sorry for me?
Haruki Murakami
#27. Och, stop being so sensitive, Prentice; it isn't much fun getting old. One of the few pleasures that do come your way is to speak your mind ... Certainly annoying your relatives is enjoyable too, but I expected better of you.
Iain Banks
#28. Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!
Ingrid Bergman
#29. I feel like my early experiences of acting, and I think a lot of other actors' too, are probably at camp or school plays where you get to have great range. At camp, I remember getting to play a 50-year-old man.
Matt McGorry
#30. 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.
Penn Jillette
#31. Disney World is celebrating its 40th birthday! You can tell the characters are getting old. In addition to Snow White's seven dwarfs, she now has 25 cats.
Jimmy Fallon
#32. Sensible men are getting more liberal; they are removing the old landmarks: fall in with the times. Wear your shield, Christian, therefore, close upon your armour, and cry mightily unto God, that by His Spirit you may endure to the end.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#33. The first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.
Mary Lee Settle
#34. You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.
Kim Dong Hwa
#35. About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you don't have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.
Tom Heinsohn
#36. You used to get it in your fishnets
Now you only get it in your nightdress
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness ...
... Remeber when the boys were all electric?
Arctic Monkeys
#37. Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#38. Growing up is simply getting old. Growing up is when you don't believe anymore
J.M. Barrie
#39. I think that Vegas is one of the wildest places I've ever been to. You can look to your left and there's a drag queen getting married by Elvis, to the right there is some old bird sticking quarters into a slot machine for hours.
Marsha Thomason
#40. Your gift with storytelling, Evie? It's not about you getting lost in your own mind, or living in a dreamland. It's about the beauty of your heart. It's about being able to rise above even the worst of situations. It's one of the reason I've loved you every single day since I was 11 years old.
Mia Sheridan
#41. You're getting too old for a stuffed animal. So we traded your bear for a toaster.
Philip C. Stead
#42. There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.
Amy Hill Hearth
#43. I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.
Jonny Greenwood
#44. My friend Jim Parrack is in 'Child of God,' and we grew up together. Back then, we would watch old movies and go reenact them at a Blockbuster or a supermarket. We'd end up getting in trouble because you can't reenact movies. People think you're crazy.
Scott Haze
#45. You know how you can tell that you're getting really old? Nobody says the word 'death' around you anymore.
M. Emmet Walsh
#46. Can I have a Happy Meal?"
"don't you think you're getting a little old for that?"
"I'm only seven, Dad.
Nicholas Sparks
#47. One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.
George Carlin
#48. You're not just getting old, you're getting closer to your death; and you don't want to miss anything.
J. Limbu
#49. When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Eugene O'Neill
#50. Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full."
Robin Williams
#51. If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
David Halberstam
#52. Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.
George Clooney
#53. You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
Alan King
#54. 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
#55. Social media is a really cool way to tell your story to people who are interested in hearing it. It's not getting put through the filter of a television executive who's decided you're too old to justify the expenditure.
Greg Behrendt
#56. If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards - you are going deeper.
Stormie O'martian
#57. Damn, boy. Look at you. You're almost as old as me." "Hardly." Ricky laughed. "Look at you. You're getting gray, what's this?" "Melinda, naturally. She's working me over. You should be careful, Rick. Strong, sexy women? They'll kill you slow." "What a way to go, huh?" "Yeah,
Robyn Carr
#58. You saying I'm getting old?" Eddie asked, grinning. "It happens to us all, in the end. If we're lucky.
Andy McDermott
#59. I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#60. Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me in I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
Bil Keane
#61. I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.
Betty Dodson
#62. There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.
Gary D. Schmidt
#63. I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at all. I think that you can't help but become a little cynical about life and love but I'm still a romantic, I'm still an idealist.
Madonna Ciccone
#64. Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#65. There's nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares?
Joan Jett
#66. When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.
Brit Hume
#67. Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.
Brian Chesky
#68. It doesn't bother me," I said. "If you don't mind looking forty years old at twenty, smelling like an ashtray, and getting lung cancer, why should I?
Michelle Hodkin
#69. I'm doing the best I can. Getting old, that's what it is. I'll be fifty-three at the feast of Saint Michael. I'm no longer as strong as you are, young sirs,' said the ferryman.
Maurice Druon
#70. I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.
Alice Waters
#71. I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if you've got information and you want it out there, that is how you go about doing it. I get it.
Angie Harmon
#72. I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face.
Richard Rogers
#73. I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.
Joyce Carol Oates
#74. I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.
Bruce Forsyth
#75. No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun - for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax - This won't hurt
Hunter S. Thompson
#76. 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
#77. The two old friends stood silently in the fading light, though you wouldn't have known it to look at them. That they were old friends, I mean. Anyone could see it was getting dark.
Daniel Polansky
#78. You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes a challenge that is hard to grasp and when tomorrow promises an uncertainty that you dread encountering.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#79. I'm a nosy old woman, it's a perk of getting old. You can be annoying and people just call you eccentric.
Lauren Dane
#80. I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'
Joss Whedon
#81. I can see getting married and having a family, because it is the next thing on the agenda. You can only do this for so long. I'm old, and my friends all have kids. And I'm single, still blow drying my hair!
David Spade
#82. You don't stop the watch when you are afraid of getting old, so don't cut off advertising when you want to save money."
~Madi Preda
Madi Preda
#84. The high spot of my day has always been getting home to have my dinner with my family. It still is: to have my dinner with Helen. It's a cocktail and dinner. I know I'm a tired old geezer, but there you are.
Terry Wogan
#85. I, personally, would be shocked if we went to the end of the tape now and I didn't have at least one ... Look, even if I don't get one directly, eventually they're just going to have to give me one when I get old. So no matter how you slice it, I'm getting one.
Robert Downey Jr.
#86. The drink you spilt all over me
'Lover's Spit' left on repeat
My mom and dad let me stay home
It drives you crazy, getting old
Lorde
#87. If you see a biker chick hanging out with a group of bikers and associated with them, stay away. You'll know right away if a biker chick is free; if she's with someone, she's right by his side. Getting with somebody's old lady is a big no-no. That's more serious than anything in that world.
Theo Rossi
#88. There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop.
ASAP Ferg
#89. You can still be cool when you're dead. In fact, it's much easier, because you aren't getting old and fat and losing your hair.
Audrey Niffenegger
#90. That's what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#91. When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling - what ends up happening is that you're becoming a kind of writer with sound.
DJ Spooky
#92. It's funny, I don't feel any older than I did when I was twenty. But I know I am, because recently some twenty-year-old called me 'sir.' Sometimes the only way you know you are getting older is by the way others treat you.
John Van Epp
#93. I'd like this to become my principal activity: to make films about animals. Of course it's always interesting to model, but it depends who you are working with. I will continue to make acting, too, but I'm old - I'm getting tired of it.
Isabella Rossellini
#94. It's confidence; it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.
Garrison Keillor
#95. But I can't stay here for a week!"
"You can stay here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out which is so difficult.
A.A. Milne
#96. I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed.
Martha Stewart
#97. But you have to remember, Fran, she's too old to change, but you are getting old enough to understand that.
Stephen King
#98. This doesn't mean you're getting a discount."
Audrey heaved a mock sigh. "Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with sexual favors, then."
Gnome choked on the soup. "I'm old enough to be your grandfather!"
Audrey winked at him, gathering the empty bags. "But you're not.
Ilona Andrews
#99. You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.
Will Rogers
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