Subject: Age » Old

It’s a good thing to be old, because that means you haven’t died yet, right?

(1974 – ) Spanish actress & model

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I don’t know why my elderly neighbor bothers subscribing to newspapers if he’s just going to let them pile up outside his house.

comedian

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

The older I get, the better I used to be.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

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

(1881 – 1973) German economist

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve; middle age is when you're forced to.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

After 60, all of us belong to the weaker sex.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

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

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

(1886 – 1962) English writer

She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.

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

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

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

(1879 – 1964) British politician

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

My grandad has a chair in his shower which makes him feel old, so in order to feel young he sits on it backwards like a cool teacher giving an assembly about drugs.

(1991 – ) English stand-up comedian

I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

(1882 – 1941) English novelist, essayist, publisher & feminist

Oh, to be seventy again.

(1841 – 1929) French statesman, physician & journalist

Good hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even when you wish they were.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator