Subject: Age (Page 6)

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

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

When you’re in your 20s and 30s and you drop some weight, people notice, they’re nice about it… they’re like, ‘Hey man, you look good!' … but when you’re in your 40s and you lose weight, people are like, ‘You doin’ all right?'

(1963 – ) American comedian & author

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

(1667 – 1745) Irish satirist & essayist

When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.

(1915 – 1985) stage & film actor & director

Teenagers: Those old enough to know everything.

Barney: I think of you as experienced. In an emergency, you would be the first one that I’d call.
Fish: You should call me first. I need time to put my teeth in.

(1921 – ) American actor

I’m still going on bad dates, when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

Girls used to come up to me and say, “My sister loves you.” Now they say, “My mother loves you.”

baseball player

Fiber: Edible wood-pulp said to aid digestion and prolong life, so that we might enjoy another six or eight years in which to consume wood-pulp.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter

Old Age: When you find yourself using one bend-over to pick up two things.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist

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

When men reach their sixties and retire they go to pieces; women just go on cooking.


Women are not forgiven for aging; Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

(1937 – ) American actress, writer, political activist, & fitness exponent

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

(1956 – ) author & movie actress

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit it that far.

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

Whatever a parent does is wrong.

I must admit he exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I’ve ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

movie character, in Kind Hearts And Coronets (Dennis Price)

Growing old is compulsory – growing up is optional.

(1928 – 2003) English entertainer

You know you're getting old when everything dries up or leaks.