Subject: Age (Page 13)

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

The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

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

(1919 – ) American sportswriter

As I understand President Bush's Medicare plan, it provides for unlimited coverage for anyone over 72 whose parents can pass the physical.

(1932 – ) American political satirist & comedian

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed… it evens itself out.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

(384 BC – 322 BC) Greek philosopher

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery

writer

The young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they're cramming for their final exam.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

The trick is growing up without growing old.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost… they are added to the ages of other women.


(1499 – 1566) French noblewoman & prominent courtier

Ask anybody over 30 – if they tell you they have more than 10 friends, you know they’re counting co-workers.

American comedian & television host

I’m still going on bad dates, when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

I’m a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

Geriatricide joint

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

Say Satch, tell me, was Abraham Lincoln a crouch hitter?

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

The number of women a man find attractive is truly proportionate to his age.

Age: The time when everything hurts and what doesn’t hurt, doesn’t work.