A Few Giggle Quotes About Old Age

by Tom Damron
(Plano, TExas)

Some of us consider old age as being synonymous with morbidity and dread while many of us look at ageing as nothing but a number.

The number believers have elected to accept old age as only a slight shift in their lives. There is a huge number of them who have a hilarious outlook about getting old. I've picked a few of the juiciest remarks about ageing to give you a boost for the day.

I'm certain you'll have a laugh while reading them and then you'll pass them on to your pals at the next coffe klatch.

Here they are---

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

I guess I don't mind so much being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -

Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant's outnumber your friends.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative.

I'm 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know.

As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two

There is absolutely nothing to be said in favor of growing old. There ought to be legislation against it.

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

You know you're getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.

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

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

People say that age is just a state of mind. I say it's more about the state of your body.

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done

I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas'.

You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.

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

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Respect us old people. We graduated school without Google or Wikipedia.

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.