Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a…

— Khushwant Singh

Eighty percent of language lies to us.

— Deena Metzger

“True, science has conquered many diseases, broken the genetic code, and even placed human beings on the moon, and yet when a man of…

— Woody Allen

It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be…

— Rose Macaulay

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

— Jake Simmons, Jr

At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have…

— Hokusai

“You're missing a whole demographic of Katherines by not chasing the over-eighty market.”

— John Green

Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!

— George Burns

We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want?…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world…

— Douglas Coupland

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If an eighty-year-old wants to skydive, then so be it. If I want to blow soap bubbles in the park, then why not? Why…

— Angela Scott

“Everyone should realize that today the average person lives to be about eighty years of age, the first twenty to twenty-five of which are…

— Ben Carson

One hundred and eighty, divided by three, is one dart at a time

— Sid Waddell

“I believe it's never too late to change. I'm eighty-one years old, but I still think I can be a better person tomorrow than…

— Carl Hiaasen