Ian Hislop Quotes

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.

My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn't take very good care of himself.

I never thought I would live this long.

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.

I suppose if your parents die in their 50s and you are approaching 50, you see that you are definitely not in the first half of your life any more.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.

And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.

Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.' My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who's next? Will it be someone I can't stand?

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

My audience is going to die before I do.

I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air.

I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young person. My father died when he was 63. My mother made it to 74. My grandparents, God, they were dropping like flies.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.