Being old Quote by J. P. Donleavy Download Open image “On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.” — J. P. Donleavy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being old Comfort Nice Way
The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me. — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
When you're getting older, you think about what you have to offer, and what's the point of your life. — Justin Chancellor Copy Share Image
About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead! — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Be happy when you don't notice that you're getting old, it means you have had a great life so far. — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered it- that… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by. — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films. — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
Expect the worst And that's what You'll get Only it will be Much worse. — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight. — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience...when I was young I wasn't scared about anything — Thierry Henry Copy Share Image
I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Being vintage like a fine wine Should make you proud of being old And being mature like a cheese Certainly explains the mould! Fester… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people. — Maggie Scarf Copy Share Image
I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense… — Maggie Scarf Copy Share Image
