Subject: Age (Page 25)

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

(1879 – 1964) British politician

Life not only begins at forty – it begins to show.

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music.

(1921 – 2009) British composer, pianist and radio & television presenter

Is it common for people to become a pothead at 40? … asking for myself.

(1970 –) American stand-up comedian

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

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

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

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

When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)

Only thing that’s worse than walking in on your parents making love is walking in on your grandparents making love.

(1969 – ) comedian & actor

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

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

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

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

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

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

I’d like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

(1907 - 1990) American theatrical producer

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

I was born when my dad was 50; it’s weird growing up with a dad that much older than you… we’d go to the movies and we’re both getting discounts.

(1970 –) American stand-up comedian

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you’ll grow out of it.

(1924 – ) American actress & singer

If you live to be ninety in England and can still eat a boiled egg they think you deserve the Nobel Prize.

English author, actor, humorist & playwright

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

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

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