Millicent Fenwick Quotes

Once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

It's a good thing to be old. Because when you get older, that means you haven't died yet, right? And when I do get older, I want to have the grace to be proud of it, not to lie about it or try to fight it.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.

But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

I don't think of myself as old. Obviously I am - I have a free bus pass, I'm going to be a grandad in two months time, and my hip is giving me jip, so it's all telling me something I don't really want to hear.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

If you're lucky enough to get old, I think you should celebrate it.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!