Subject: Age (Page 20)

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man; now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

(1773 – 11829) English genius & polymath

Youth: The first fifty years of your life… the first twenty of anyone else’s.

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much… then again, don’t drink too little.

Birthday: Anniversary of one’s birth, observed only by men and children.

You might be a redneck if… an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger changed your life.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty.

(1965 – ) comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer & director

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Everyone I like stays the hell away from me.

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

I wouldn’t be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

(1925 – 2010) American film actor

I still feel 30, except when I try to run.

(1929 – ) American comedian & comic actor

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

(384 BC – 322 BC) Greek philosopher

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

You are 32, you are rapidly approaching the age when your body, whether it embarrasses you or not, begins to embarrass other people.

English author, actor, humorist & playwright

If you're 19 and you stay up all night, it's like a victory, like you've beat the night, but, if you're over 30, then that sun is like God's flashlight.

(1953 – ) American comedian, actor, voice artist, & columnist

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

American cartoonist, illustrator & writer

I am just turning forty and taking my time about it.

(1893 – 1971) American film actor & producer

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

(1906 – 1982) baseball player

He has become the oldest living cute boy in the world.

(1953 – ) American author, journalist & opinion columnist

At my age, an affair of the heart is a bypass.

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

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

(1858 – 1919) 26th U.S. president

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery

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