Subject: Age » Old (Page 12)

Eighty is a wonderful age… especially if you’re ninety.

(1900 – 1973) American journalist & editor

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


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

Tommy John is so old, he uses Absorbine Senior.

(1952 – ) American sportscaster

How young can you die of old age?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

It was tough growing up in Florida because all my friends were retired.

(1959 – ) American comedian, comedy writer, actor & author

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Have you ever tried to put an oyster in a slot machine?

(1922 – ) actor, film director, producer, writer & comedian

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

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

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

(1887 – 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist & poet

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

You know you're getting old when you start to dress in more than six colors.

(1936 – 2014) American standup comedian, actor & author

Last year my birthday cake looked like a prairie fire.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

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

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

(1974 – ) Spanish actress & model

She is so old… she's in God's year book.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty, and that’s the law.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

Fiber: Edible wood-pulp said to aid digestion and prolong life, so that we might enjoy another six or eight years in which to consume wood-pulp.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian

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

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