Subject: Age (Page 2)

Looking fifty is great – if you're sixty.

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

Birthdays are nice to have, but too many of them will kill a person.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can’t suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

True friends stab you in the front.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

I didn’t see it [old age] coming — it hit me from the rear.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

Girls used to come up to me and say, “My sister loves you.” Now they say, “My mother loves you.”

baseball player

He is so old… his social security number is 6.

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

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

The older I get, the better I used to be.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

Adolescence is that period in a kid’s life when parents become more difficult.

(1941 – ) American actor

Teenagers: People who express a burning drive to be different by dressing alike.

Did you ever look in a mirror and wonder how your pantyhose got so wrinkled… and then remember you weren’t wearing any?

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

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

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

Old age is like everything else; to make a success of it, you've got to start young.

(1858 – 1919) 26th U.S. president

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going; I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Middle Age: That period in life when your idea of getting ahead is staying even.

I’m like old wine; they don't bring me out very often, but I’m well preserved.

(1890 – 1995) American philanthropist & wife of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.