Old age is called the second childhood. Old people are adorable and fun to be with. And they can be funny too, at times, if not always! Old people love to be loved, especially by their second generation. It’s no surprise that the younger members of the family dote on them. All said and done, with fast changing times, not many people enjoy, aging gracefully. People now do anything to hang on to their youth. No wonder why gyms are flooded with people over sixty, people who are tagged as grandmas and grandpas. It is now quite a common sight seeing old people sweating it out at the gym, to keep themselves healthy and fit. Today, the next-gen grandparents celebrate their old age with fun. It is no more a challenge to lead an old age with the spirit of youth. One of the many ways of celebrating old age is by embracing it and enjoying it with cascading mirth and pinch of humor. Laughing out the stress and strain and leading a delightful life is what many people look forward to, once they reach their twilight years. You now know the reason for the mushrooming of so many laughter clubs in urban India! Speaking of laughter, why not give your funny bone a good treat? Here are some funny sayings about old age. Check them out.
Funny Old Age Quotes
- “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.”- Richard Needham
- “As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.”- Robert Quillen
- "Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant’s outnumber your friends." - Ogden Nash
- “The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.” – Chinese Proverb
- “I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.” - Nancy Astor
- "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age." - Lucille Ball
- "I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?" - Barry Cryer
- "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." - George Burns
- “I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.” - Bob Hope
- “If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.” - George Burns
- “Gray hair is God's graffiti.” - Bill Cosby
- “Children are a great comfort in your old age -- and they help you reach it faster, too.” - Lionel Kauffman
- “No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.” - Oscar Wilde
- "Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up." - John Wagner
- “Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man." - Leon Trotsky
- “Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.” - George Burns
- “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 Pepper
- “To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two...” - Norman Wisdom
- “All diseases run into one, old age.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “There is absolutely nothing to be said in favor of growing old. There ought to be legislation against it." - Patrick Moore
- “Oh, to be seventy again!”- Georges Clemenceau
- “There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.” - J. B. Priestly
- “By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.” - Bill Vaughan
- “Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.” - Bob Monkhouse
- “You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.” - Woody Allen
- “In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.” - Beverly Sills
- “You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.” - Harrison Ford