Subject: Age » Old (Page 2)

When you are over the hill, you pick up speed.

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

(1956 – ) author & movie actress

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

author

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday; I tell them, a paternity suit.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

I've only got one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it.

(1875 – 1997) French, 120 year old woman

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Anyone can get old; all you have to do is live long enough.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning? … Amazed!

(1881 – 1973) German economist

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in it's holder is a thrill.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

When you’re in your 20s and 30s and you drop some weight, people notice, they’re nice about it… they’re like, ‘Hey man, you look good!' … but when you’re in your 40s and you lose weight, people are like, ‘You doin’ all right?'

(1963 – ) American comedian & author

You know you are getting older when “Happy Hour” is a nap.

The older you get, the higher your underwear – get like rings on a tree; you're 80-90 years old – your breasts are inside them.

stand-up comedian, actor, writer & producer

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

(1913 – 1990) American actress

I’ve been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

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

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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

(1919 – 2006) American comedian & actor

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

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