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I'm Hub McCann. I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and tanks. I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won or lost a dozen fortunes, killed many men, and loved only one woman, with a passion a flea like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am.
You gave me life, you gave me milk, you gave me courage. Your name was Angela, the angel from heaven. But you were also an angel of God, and He needed you too. Selfishly, I tried to keep you here while the cancer ate away your organs, like an unstoppable rebel force. But I couldn't save you, and I shall see your face nevermore, nevermore, nevermore, until we meet in heaven.
If you call me Old Timer again, you're gonna be wearing your ass around your head. Like a hat.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
I'll tell you a simple way to get rid of wrinkles - put on weight!
This is pitiful. A thousand people, freezing their butts off, waiting to worship a rat. What a hype. Well they used to mean something in this town, they used to pull the hog out and they used to eat it. You're hypocrites! All of ya! You got a problem with what I'm saying Larry? Untie your tongue and you come out here and talk, huh? Am I upsetting you, Princess? You know you want a prediction about the weather, you're asking the wrong Phil. I'll give you a prediction. It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be gray, and it's gonna last you the rest of your life.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Fat is the safest and simplest cure for wrinkles.
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
The more you forget, the more life becomes filled with surprises.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Hitler never played risk when he was a kid.
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
And how long have you been seventeen?
He has this disease where his head is shaved except he doesn't have to shave it because he doesn't have any hair in the first place. Don't talk about it around him though, it might offend him.
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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