Jimmy Carl Black Quotes

I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way.

I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

I don't want to be 25 again.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

This is what happens when you get old and have a couple of bucks. You go back and try to be young again.

The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

I hear people in their 20s describe the 40s as a far-off decade of too-late, when they'll regret things that they haven't done. But for older people I meet, the 40s are the decade that they would most like to travel back to.

I got caught up in 35 years of Saturday nights. Every night was like party night to me. As a young man, you can do that; it's OK to be an idiot. But I woke up one day, and I realized that 35 years had gone by.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

I'm not much of a party guy anymore.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise.

I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.