Subject: Age (Page 28)

Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty… but everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

(1955 – ) actor & comedian

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn’t have to pay the extra fifty cents the adults had to pay.

(1947 – ) basketball player, coach & actor

My boyfriend and I are both in our late 20s; he’s 29, I’m 34.

(1980 – ) Australian comedian

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

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

Have you ever tried to put an oyster in a slot machine?

(1922 – ) actor, film director, producer, writer & comedian

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have remembrances of what never happened.

(1870 – 1916) British writer

The thing about getting old is the number of things you think that you can’t say aloud because it would be too shocking.

(1919 – 2013) British writer, poet & playwright

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

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

You want to look younger… rent smaller children.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

You know you're getting old when you start to dress in more than six colors.

(1936 – 2014) American standup comedian, actor & author

It was traumatic for me — not as traumatic as turning gay.

television executive & comedian

You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor's age by the rings on her fingers.

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

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, we’re both getting discounts.

(1970 –) American stand-up comedian