Subject: Age (Page 27)

I’m 50 years of old.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

As you grow older, you stand for more and fall for less.

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

(1908 – 1976) publisher & author

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

You want to look younger… rent smaller children.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

He is so old… I told him to act his own age, and he died.

Ask any woman her age, and nine times out of ten she’ll guess wrong.

comedian

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.

She is so old… she's in God's year book.

You know, you get that tattoo of barbed wire when you’re 18, but by the time you’re 80, it’s a picket fence.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

He has become the oldest living cute boy in the world.

(1953 – ) American author, journalist & opinion columnist

You are 32, you are rapidly approaching the age when your body, whether it embarrasses you or not, begins to embarrass other people.

English author, actor, humorist & playwright

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snowblower or vacuum cleaner.

I am not young enough to know everything.

(1860 – 1937) Scottish author, dramatist (creator of Peter Pan)

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning? … Amazed!

(1881 – 1973) German economist

20 to 40 is the fillet steak of life; after that it’s all short cuts.

(1922 – 1985) English poet & novelist

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

My body is dropping so fast, my gynecologist wears a hard hat.

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

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery

writer