Subject: Age » Old (Page 9)

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can’t suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.”

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

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

(1908 – 1999) English writer

I'm in a restaurant one time, we go to the men's room – my grandfather was standing by the condom machine going, 'Hey, this gum has got no flavor.'

American comedian & actor

I've dated men my age, younger than me and older and the only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

(1970 – ) American film & television actress

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

Girls used to come up to me and say, “My sister loves you.” Now they say, “My mother loves you.”

baseball player

The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

(1887 – 1948) American journalist & humorist

I’d like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

(1907 - 1990) American theatrical producer

Ask anybody over 30 – if they tell you they have more than 10 friends, you know they’re counting co-workers.

American comedian & television host

Oh, to be seventy again.

(1841 – 1929) French statesman, physician & journalist

She was old too, when she went to school they didn’t have history.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

(1802 – 1885) French writer

At my age, an affair of the heart is a bypass.

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

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

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

First you forget names, then you forget faces… next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

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

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

Geriatricide joint

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist