Bob Hope Quotes

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

I find, to my amazement, that I have reached the age of 90!

At 66, you're supposed to die or get hemorrhoids.

What happens at 90 is that I don't walk so good, my eyes are going, I can't hear well, and I'm getting all of the 90s residuals.

The furthest I can see is me being 60.

I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius.

Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage.

I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.

I'm getting so old my insurance company sends me 1/2 a calendar!

It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

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

I grew up in a retirement community in Florida.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

I am in the prime of my senility.