Subject: Age (Page 22)

She was old too, when she went to school they didn’t have history.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

When you feel that you would like to go back to your youth, think of algebra.

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'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

Middle Age: A time of life when winking at a girl is closing one eye to reality.

Centenarian: A person who has lived to be one hundred years old. He never smoked or he smoked all his life. He used whiskey for eighty years or he never used it. He was a vegetarian or he wasn’t a vegetarian.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

(1754 – 1838) French prime minister & diplomat

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

(1911 – 1999) comedian, author & columnist

The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid; girls got pinned, not nailed.

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

After the age of 80, you seem to be having breakfast every day.

(1907 – 2005) was an English poet & playwright

She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.

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

Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and started growing in the middle.

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

Old age is when you know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.

(1925 – ) English writer & editor

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

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

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

(1913 – 1990) American actress

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else… and usually is.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

Adolescence: A period in which children begin to question the answers.