Subject: Age (Page 26)

Old age is no place for sissies.

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

I was not a particularly small child; I was the one who always got picked to play Bethlehem in the school play.

(1957 – ) British stand-up comedian

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, "Do you have any toy train schedules?"

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

Adolescence is the time in life when a youngster is well informed about anything he doesn’t have to study.

Regarding my family, I’m the youngest of three; my parents are both older.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

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

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

I know she's a bit touchy about her age – even though it's not the first time she's turned 40.

(1955 – ) American actor, comedian, producer, director & singer

I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old… unfortunately there’s never one around.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

Middle-age is the time of life, that a man first notices – in his wife.

(1906 – 1989) American poet & author

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

(1613 – 1680) French writer

I personally stay away from natural foods; at my age I need all the preservatives I can get.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

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

(1913 – 1990) American actress

When you become senile, you won't know it.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous; when I was sixty-five, I still had pimples.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

While you can only be young once, you can always be immature.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist