Subject: Age » Old (Page 11)

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

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

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Senescence begins and middle age ends, the day your descendants outnumber your friends.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

That dame is older than the Continental Shelf!

(1944 – ) American actor, director & producer

I don’t plan to grow old gracefully; I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

A sexagenarian? At his age? I think that’s disgusting!

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going; I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

(106 BC – 43 BC) Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator & political consul

By the time a man finds greener pastures, he’s too old to climb the fence.

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

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

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Old Age: When you find yourself using one bend-over to pick up two things.

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to.

(1936 – 2014) American standup comedian, actor & author

To what do I attribute my longevity? … bad luck.

(1908 – 1999) English writer

Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew Up

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

(1667 – 1745) Irish satirist & essayist

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost… they are added to the ages of other women.


(1499 – 1566) French noblewoman & prominent courtier

You know you’re getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don’t know anyone who can see through it.

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

She is so old… she used to baby-sit Jesus.

You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress