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Over the Hill
This card handcrafted by Mary Lynn. You know you are over the hill when your broad mind and narrow waistline trades places. You know you are getting old when everything hurts, and what doesn't hurt, doesn't work! Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. --Mark Twain (outside of card) Hill? What hill? I didn't see any hill. Did you see any hill? (inside of card) just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. --Charles Schlulz You know your old when your youngest starts collecting Social Security. You know you are getting old when your little black book contains only names ending in M.D. The first hundred years are the hardest. --Wilson Mizner Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change. --Molly Keane You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster. Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. --Mark Twain Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. --Fred Astaire I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. --Lady Nancy Don't think of yourself as getting older . . . You are, of course, but it's best not to think of it! Happy Birthday! Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. We grow too soon old and too late smart. You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime You know you are getting old when everything hurts, and what doesn't hurt, doesn't work! I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. -- T. S. Eliot
This card handcrafted by Mary Lynn. Click here for more age related sayings Hill? What hill? I didn't see any hill. Did you see any hill? (inside) just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. Charles Schlulz Life begins at forty. --W. B. Pitkin The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love. --Jean Renoir Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen --Mark Twain I'm sixty years of old. That's 16 Celsius. --George Carlin You know you're 60 when your children begin to look middle-aged One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late. Pablo Picasso I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. --Fred Astaire Some people reach the age of sixty before others. --Lord Hood The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. -- T. S. Eliot Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it. --Henry Ford The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. --Muhammad Ali Looking fifty is great--if you're sixty. --Joan Rivers
Over 40 and still cookin'! At the age of 20, we don't care what people think of us; at 30, we worry about what other people think of us; at 40, we discover people weren’t thinking of us at all. The best years of a woman's life - the ten years between 39 and 40. Forty isn't old, if you're a tree” What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. --Voltaire When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see yourself acting like you parents. --Blair Sabol After 30, a body has a mind of its own. --Bette Midler Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty. --Robert Frost Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. --Caryn Leschen Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. --Georges Clemenceau Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty eight and forty. --James Thurber Finally 21, and legally able to do everything I've been doing since 15 At 20, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. --Jim Bishop When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he had learned in seven years. --Mark Twain Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life. --Robert Southey Wisdom doesn’t always come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. It’s a good thing wrinkles don’t hurt. One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. If you have your own favorite over the hill quote and would like to share it, or possibly a story you would like to add please continue to our contributor page. Mary Lynn Click here to visit our Contributor page. Return to the top of Over the Hill sayings. Every effort has been made to give proper credit to the author of each of the sayings on this site. If there has been any oversight on my behalf please contact me and I will remove the quotation or give the proper acknowledgment. |
