Subject: Age » Old (Page 4)

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

My mother used to say: the older you get, the better you get… unless you’re a banana.

1922) American actress, comedian & television personality

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

(1912 – 1969) Norwegian figure skater & actress

He’s so old his social security number is two digits.

She is so old… she was the waitress at the last supper.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

(1754 – 1838) French prime minister & diplomat

Age is a function of mind over matter; if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

(1906 – 1982) baseball player

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

Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning; old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Oh, to be seventy again.

(1841 – 1929) French statesman, physician & journalist

Tommy John is so old, he uses Absorbine Senior.

(1952 – ) American sportscaster

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost… they are added to the ages of other women.


(1499 – 1566) French noblewoman & prominent courtier

Regardless of their age, most folks are not as old as they hope to be.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they're cramming for their final exam.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year, and I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

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.

Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking.

(1961 – 1994) comedian

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

(1931 – 1995) American baseball player