Subject: Age (Page 12)

If you're 19 and you stay up all night, it's like a victory, like you've beat the night, but, if you're over 30, then that sun is like God's flashlight.

(1953 – ) American comedian, actor, voice artist, & columnist

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

She’ll never admit it, but I believe it is Mama.

(1917 – 2016) Hungarian-born American actress

You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time… again.

(1970 –) American stand-up comedian

Last year my birthday cake looked like a prairie fire.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

You know you’ve reached middle age when you’re cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

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

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 didn’t see [Christy] Mathewson, but Oquendo said he had a good slider.

American baseball player

I’ve been doing it [stealing from hotels] for so long, I have a set of towels from the Ark.

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

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist

I’m a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

The only difference between friends and lovers is about four minutes.

writer, website creator

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

To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.

(1868 – 1936) Russian writer & political activist

Even when I was a kid, my imaginary friend would play with the kid across the street.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

There are three terrible ages of childhood – 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

(1917 – 1998) author, critic, animal rights activist

There are no old people nowadays; they are either 'wonderful for their age' or dead.

author

He is so old… when he was in school they didn’t teach history!

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor