Craig Ferguson Quotes

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

I don't feel any older now than when I was 70.

People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you're lucky, that's literally going to happen to you. It's a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently.

I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40.

I read an article about 60 being the new 30 the other week, and I think it's very true. Our generation has not done what previous generations did and just got old and sat in a corner.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

The fastest growing segment of the population in the world right now is over the age of 90, and in some cases over the age of 100 in some countries. So people are living longer. And even though much of it is attributed to modern medicine, it's not. It's lifestyle. It's nutrition. It's the quality of exercise, the ability to manage stress.

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.