Subject: Age (Page 25)

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

(1882 – 1941) English novelist, essayist, publisher & feminist

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

(1931 – 1995) American baseball player

You know you are getting older when “Happy Hour” is a nap.

You ever drive around with an old person who knows where everything didn't used to be?

American stand-up comedian

The number of women a man find attractive is truly proportionate to his age.

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

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

I’m at the age where I have to find my hearing aid to ask where my glasses are.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty.

(1970 – ) American stand-up comedian & voice actor

Robins: I've just written my 87th book.
Barbara Cartland: I've written 145.
Robins: Oh I see, one a year.

(1897 – 1985) British novelist

He's great to the old guys. He's got one trainer just to treat varicose veins.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor

Teenagers: Those old enough to know everything.

She is so old… her dreams are in black and white.

Looking fifty is great – if you’re sixty.

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

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

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

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

(1893 – 1971) American film actor & producer

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

(1912 – 1969) Norwegian figure skater & actress

Biologically, I'm 10; chronologically, I'm 33, but in hockey years, I'm 66.


Whatever a parent does is wrong.