Humorous Old Age Sayings

#1. One makes war to win, not because it's just.

Michel Foucault

#2. Noronha's Laws

1. No man works harder than he must.
2. The joy of living, lies in making little things big.
3. Try never to do what you do not want to do. The secret of a happy old age is in never doing what you do not want to do.

R.P. Noronha

#3. A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Thomas Carlyle

#5. The minute you try to do something that is not true to you, is not something that you really know about, and is not a lifestyle or world that you live in or can relate to, it's going to come off as false.

Eric Balfour

#6. My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.

Robert Orben

#7. Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ... especially the children of men.

Richard Hooker

#8. Your background should not dictate the rest of your life ; there is success in continuity.

Osunsakin Adewale

#9. Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant.

H.L. Mencken

#10. Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.

Edward Kennedy

#11. The greatest trick you can teach an old dog is how to learn new tricks.

J.S. Davey

#12. The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.

Tom Peters

#13. I'm not the most positive person.

Penny Marshall

#14. I'm past competing in pissing contests. My jet stream is now more of a trickle. The only contest I'd win is the number of trips to the bathroom it takes to purge a 32oz soda.

Brian MacLearn

#15. There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.

Red Skelton