Mary Browne Quotes

I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I used to love getting older.

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.'

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

The older I get the better I used to be!

Heavens, Mary, of course we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again.

I've told everyone that I grew old on 'Hee Haw,' but I could've grown old without it.

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.