People ask me what I’d most appreciate getting for my 87 birthday. I tell them a paternity suit.
Old Quotes
I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
I was always taught to respect my elders and I’ve now reached the age when I don’t have anybody to respect.
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened.
If you live to the age of a hundred, you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred.
There is no such thing as ‘on the way out’ as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you’re in the business because you’re breathing.
The reason we’re doing this now is because I’m booked to play Pasadena the week of my 100th birthday. (during a TV special ostensibly to celebrate his 100th birthday)
One’s age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike, calm and cheerful.
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
