Subject: Age » Old

If you live to be ninety in England and can still eat a boiled egg they think you deserve the Nobel Prize.

English author, actor, humorist & playwright

That dame is older than the Continental Shelf!

(1944 – ) American actor, director & producer

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

(1919 – 2006) American comedian & actor

When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow and now that I’m old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.

(1915 – 2001) English astronomer & mathematician

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit it that far.

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

Did you ever look in a mirror and wonder how your pantyhose got so wrinkled… and then remember you weren’t wearing any?

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

That man so old… he’s older than his birthday.

(1894 – 1975) American comedian

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

(1870 – 1965) businessman & politician

Senility: The pleasantly rueful experience of forgetting what we’ve forgotten.

There are no old people nowadays; they are either 'wonderful for their age' or dead.

author

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

I said to my husband, ‘My boobs have gone, my stomach’s gone, say something nice about my legs;’ he said, ‘Blue goes with everything.’

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

I didn’t see it [old age] coming — it hit me from the rear.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Dinah [Shore] formed a foundation to locate missing senior citizens by putting their pictures on prune juice bottles.

(1919 – 2006) American comedian & actor

I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.

(1956 – ) American comedian

Old age is like learning a new profession; and not one of your own choosing.

(1907 – ) French-born American historian of ideas & culture

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I told my doctor I wanna stop aging, he gave me a gun!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor