Subject: Age (Page 14)

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses… drinks right out of the bottle.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed… it evens itself out.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

Youth: A good substitute for experience.

As I get older I'm going to hear "You look great" a lot less than I'm going to hear "You look sick.”

American stand-up comedian

When you are over the hill, you pick up speed.

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

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

I like my buddies from west Texas; I liked them when I was young; I liked them then I was middle – age; I liked them before I was president; and I like them during president, and I like them after president.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

(1886 – 1962) English writer

It was tough growing up in Florida because all my friends were retired.

(1959 – ) American comedian, comedy writer, actor & author

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

(1667 – 1745) Irish satirist & essayist

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

Life not only begins at forty – it begins to show.

I feel I can talk with more authority, especially when I say, ‘I don’t know.’

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

(1931 – 2005) American 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

Senility: The pleasantly rueful experience of forgetting what we’ve forgotten.

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

It is better to waste one’s youth than to do nothing with it at all.

(1858 – 1929) French dramatist, novelist & satirist

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress