She's eighty-four and still has all her teeth. She keeps…

“The container had been packed half-full of steel cylinders of some sort, each one of them in a protective wooden box with a lid.…

— Jonas Jonasson

While I was walkin' down the beach. One bright and sunny day. I saw a great big wooden box. A-floatin' in the bay.

— Phil Harris

“He had learned something already in the course of his journey. If you carried a closed wooden box, people want to know what is…

— Marcus Sedgwick

“There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.”

— H.M. Forester

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

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

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

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

— George Burns

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

— John Green

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

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

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

“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

Eighty percent of language lies to us.

— Deena Metzger

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