Subject: Age (Page 12)

We were a generation born too late to eat goldfish and too early to flash.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

Being young is a fault that diminishes daily.

Old age is no place for sissies.

(1908 – 1989) American actress of film, television & theater

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

You know you’ve reached middle age when you’re cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

There are three ages of man – youth, middle age, and ‘you're looking wonderful.’

(1889 – 1967) American bishop & cardinal of the Catholic Church

Have you ever tried to put an oyster in a slot machine?

(1922 – ) actor, film director, producer, writer & comedian

Adolescence: That period when children feel their parents should be told the facts of life.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must’ve been something before electricity.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who’s Mary Astor? … Get me Mary Astor… Get me a Mary Astor type… Get me a young Mary Astor… Who’s Mary Astor?

(1906 – 1987) American actress

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

Until I was 13, I thought my name was ‘Shut Up.’

(1943 – ) American football player

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

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I don't need you to remind me of my age; I have a bladder to do that for me.

(1957 – ) English actor, writer, journalist, comedian & film director

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor