Funny Quotes About Age - Page 5
"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."
— E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings
"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example."
— Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
"If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again."
— Mary Beth Danielson
"A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it."
— Miles Dewey Davis
"The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies "an accident going to happen."
— John Sloan Dickey
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
— Benjamin Franklin
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
— Benjamin Franklin
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
— Benjamin Franklin
He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
— Bill Dana
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."
— Claude D. Pepper
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
— Dorothea Kent
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
— Eli Cass