Top 1200 Old Age Humor Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.

I've been blessed enough where all the rules that come with age don't apply to me. People were saying I was old at 32.

Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.

Football in Italy is like a wonderful sickness, because people are infected with this love for the sport from childhood to old age.

I have always believed that there is no age factor to this music business. You are only as old as you feel and basically you can be a contender at any time.

I was a young age, 16 years old, in Mexico. I traveled to these different countries, and I have the new style from Mexico and TNA. I wrestled two years in Florida, then back in Japan, and everything combined for a new style. It's different. I was looking for old school wrestling that looked new.

My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

The idea of old world instruments mixed with sci-fi, futuristic lyrics, playing baroque guitar on a song about a robot boy and a banjo solo on a song about white noise - that's our sense of humor.

Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.

I am the father of a 9 year-old son whose descent into the world of autism began at the age of 7 months old after receiving numerous vaccinations in a single day; the same story that is told by thousands of other parents of children throughout the country whose healthy, normally developing children have become autistic after vaccinations.

September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East.

I have worked since I was 12 years old and started providing for my family in Holland by the age of 17 - and I still do today.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.

I'm really interested in the link between creativity and humor because humor is a type of creativity, and I do think that humorous people and humorous health helps creativity.

Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts.

From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention.

Humor is always important. There are people who help us deal with difficulty or hardship; from the concentration camps to the court jester, there was a need for humor. As long as these kinds of things exist, with repressive regimes, you need it to deal with the weight of daily life.

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

India's sex ratio is 1000 boys for 940 girls. Who creates this disparity? It isn't God. Don't fill your coffers by sacrificing the mother's womb. People feel that sons will take care of them when they are old. But I have seen aged parents in old-age homes. I have seen families where one daughter serves parents more than five sons.

My dream is to be Endora in Bewitched. That's the part I want to do. I want to do a fabulous old woman. I want to be Maggie Smith someday. Not exactly like her, but that genre. I like that kind of humor - sophisticated, vain stuff.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.

Now that the most interesting matter of identity is not what place someone was born in, but what point in time they are from - where they sit in relation to time. Age has become much more divisive than place. With the Internet and globalization, a twenty-year-old in New York has far more cultural references in common with a twenty-year-old in Nebraska than they do with a thirty-year-old who lives next door. National identity is what they trick you with when they want your feet in their army boots or your taxes in their bailouts.

blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

I'm not downplaying my age - because humankind is such that people run away from their age. Especially women. Guys pretend not to care, but they do. Age is not a good thing to most human beings. But, being an alien, I embrace it.

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.

It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

When people, especially from France, would ask me to talk about or so they could write about New York Jewish humor, I'd say I don't know anything about New York Jewish humor. I know who Zero Mostel was and I know Mel Brooks, but that's about all I could tell you about New York Jewish humor.

I know people that make similar content to me who are 30 or 40 years old. So I don't think there is an age limit to it at all.

Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.