Subject: Age » Old (Page 5)

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

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian

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

I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

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

I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.

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

When you feel that you would like to go back to your youth, think of algebra.

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

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

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

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

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

Senility: The pleasantly rueful experience of forgetting what we’ve forgotten.

Say Satch, tell me, was Abraham Lincoln a crouch hitter?

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

(1956 – ) author & movie actress

I told my doctor I wanna stop aging, he gave me a gun!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

(1881 – 1973) German economist

I believe in loyalty… when a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.

(1919 – 1995) Hungarian-born American socialite & actress

The older you get, the higher your underwear – get like rings on a tree; you're 80-90 years old – your breasts are inside them.

stand-up comedian, actor, writer & producer

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.

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

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

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

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

She's all done up like a well-kept grave.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer