Subject: Age (Page 25)

Children are a great comfort in your old age… and they help you reach it faster too.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

Old age is no place for sissies.

(1908 – 1989) American actress of film, television & theater

I am pushing sixty… that is enough exercise for me.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

Pushing fifty is exercise enough


Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve; middle age is when you're forced to.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty… he has suffered longer.

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

The four stages of a man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.

(1912 – 2010) Canadian-born American radio & television personality & humorist

A woman is as young as her knees.

(1934 – ) British fashion designer

Old Age: When you wink at a girl and she says, “Something wrong with your eyes?”

Teenagers: Those old enough to know everything.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

(1906 – 1990) British historian

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

There are three ages of man: youth, middle age and “Gee, you look good.”

(1913 – 1997) American comedian & radio & television host

I was born nine months premature.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comic

I’m at the age where I can’t take anything with a grain of salt.

American comedian

I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

I was born in 1962… and the room next to me was 1963.

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

Adolescence is the best substitute ever invented for experience.

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