Subject: Age (Page 14)

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much… then again, don’t drink too little.

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

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

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

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

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

Golden Years My Ass: Adventures in Geriatric Indignity

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older… little things, like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman—stuff you pay good money for in later life.

(1956 – ) American comedian

The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid; girls got pinned, not nailed.

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

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

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

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

Biologically, I'm 10; chronologically, I'm 33, but in hockey years, I'm 66.


What can you say when your husband says: “You can’t expect me to remember your birthday, when you never look any older.”

I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn't have to wait for it to age.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

comedian

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

(1870 – 1965) businessman & politician

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.

(1922 – 1973) Israeli teacher & child psychologist

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

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Geriatricide joint

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

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

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

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist