Bob Hope Quotes

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

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

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

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

It isn't so bad getting old. It really isn't. As long as I can stay healthy.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

I have no desire to be a centenarian. I think 90 is a great time. You've had a good innings. You have to deal with the cards that have been dealt, of course, but I don't think very old age, if you haven't got your marbles, can be very nice.

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

No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.

Turning 102 is crap, and there is nothing to commemorate.