Posted by Jack
I thought you needed a break, so here’s some funny quotes on turning 80! (May you all make it there plus many more)
Quotes on Turning 80
I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
–Unknown
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People ask me what I’d most appreciate getting for my 87th birthday, I tell them, a paternity suit.
–Unknown
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Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
–Unknown
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.
–Anthony Powell
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Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
–Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad
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For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
–John Glenn
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
–Jonathan Swift
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If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
–Unknown
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
–Mark Twain
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The quality, not the longevity of one’s life is what is important.
–Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered–rather like an old building.
–Katherine Hepburn
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18.
–Mark Twain
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May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
–Frank Sinatra
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Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
–Charles Schultz
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
–Sam Ewing
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Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. You see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn’t change.
–Molly Keane
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
–Thomas B. Aldrich
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The best way to get a man to do something is to suggest they are too old to do it.
–Unknown
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of dreams.
–John Barrymore
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I have everything now I had twenty years ago except now it’s all lower.
–Gypsy Rose Lee
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We know we’re getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. –Anonymous