Subject: Age » Old (Page 5)

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

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

He's great to the old guys. He's got one trainer just to treat varicose veins.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor

I knew her before she was a virgin.

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

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

Old age is no place for sissies.

(1908 – 1989) American actress of film, television & theater

That dame is older than the Continental Shelf!

(1944 – ) American actor, director & producer

I’m like old wine; they don't bring me out very often, but I’m well preserved.

(1890 – 1995) American philanthropist & wife of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

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.


Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

True friends stab you in the front.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

(1881 – 1973) German economist

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

(1908 – 1976) publisher & author

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man; now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

(1773 – 11829) English genius & polymath

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother’s singing.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

When men reach their sixties and retire they go to pieces; women just go on cooking.


A study says owning a dog makes you 10 years younger; my first thought was to rescue two more, but I don’t want to go through menopause again.

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

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host