Subject: Age » Old (Page 5)

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.

(1907 – 1989) American writer

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much… then again, don’t drink too little.

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

I have everything now I had twenty years ago – except now it’s lower.

(1911 – 1970) American burlesque entertainer, actress, author & playwright

There are younger Aztec ruins.

sportswriter & newspaper columnist

Old age is like everything else; to make a success of it, you've got to start young.

(1858 – 1919) 26th U.S. president

Sometimes I feel that I’m not just aging… I’m decomposing.

(1949 – ) American federal judge

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

People with money live so damn long.

Centenarian: A person who has lived to be one hundred years old. He never smoked or he smoked all his life. He used whiskey for eighty years or he never used it. He was a vegetarian or he wasn’t a vegetarian.

To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.

(1868 – 1936) Russian writer & political activist

You Are Old: Sobering Affirmations for Your Rapidly Disappearing Life

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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

Senility: A cleansing of the mental blackboard shortly before class is dismissed.

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

The four stages of a man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.

(1912 – 2010) Canadian-born American radio & television personality & humorist

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

(1913 – 1990) American actress

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist