Subject: Age

Do not worry about avoiding temptation; as you grow older it will avoid you.

(1911 – 1999) comedian, author & columnist

The hands on my biological clock are giving me the finger.

(1961 – ) American stand-up comedian

My boyfriend and I are both in our late 20s; he’s 29, I’m 34.

(1980 – ) Australian comedian

You know you're getting old when you start to dress in more than six colors.

(1936 – 2014) American standup comedian, actor & author

I am pushing sixty… that is enough exercise for me.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother’s singing.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Geriatricide joint

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Adolescence is that time of life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Kids… I like kids, but I couldn’t eat a whole one.

Getting old is when a narrow waist and a broad mind change places!

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning; old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

I’ll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

The older you get, the higher your underwear – get like rings on a tree; you're 80-90 years old – your breasts are inside them.

stand-up comedian, actor, writer & producer

If you eat one apple a day for 80 years, you won't die young.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist