Subject: Age » Old

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

My grandad has a chair in his shower which makes him feel old, so in order to feel young he sits on it backwards like a cool teacher giving an assembly about drugs.

(1991 – ) English stand-up comedian

That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

She is so old… her dreams are in black and white.

I’m a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

I'd go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

There’s one advantage to being 102, there’s no peer pressure.

I know Im getting old – I had an accident; I was arrested for hit and walk.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

You're never too old to become younger.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

It’s a good thing to be old, because that means you haven’t died yet, right?

(1974 – ) Spanish actress & model

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can’t suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

If you want to know what you’ll look like in ten years, look in the mirror after you’ve run a marathon.

American cardiologist & marathoner

To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

(1802 – 1885) French writer

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

They tell you that you’ll lose your mind when you grow older; what they don’t tell you is that you won’t miss it much.


I’ll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I ask myself questions in those stores I don't ask myself anywhere else, like, 'Will I live long enough to use all those paper towels?'

American comedian & musician

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have remembrances of what never happened.

(1870 – 1916) British writer