Subject: Age (Page 16)

Everyone I like stays the hell away from me.

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

The four stages of a man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.

(1912 – 2010) Canadian-born American radio & television personality & humorist

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

Pushing fifty is exercise enough


Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter

Barometer: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

(1931 – 1995) American baseball player

When you feel that you would like to go back to your youth, think of algebra.

You’ll have to ask somebody older than me.

(1883 – 1983) American composer, lyricist & pianist

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

(1613 – 1680) French writer

Looking fifty is great – if you're sixty.

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

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else… and usually is.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.

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

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

(1912 – 1969) Norwegian figure skater & actress

We thought it was a bad idea you guys got married, but we didn’t feel like we could say anything because it was open bar.

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

(1919 – 2006) American comedian & actor

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

It is not the years in your life that count, it is the life in your years.

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician

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 and we’re both getting discounts.

(1970 –) American stand-up comedian

Did you ever look in a mirror and wonder how your pantyhose got so wrinkled… and then remember you weren’t wearing any?

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old… unfortunately there’s never one around.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer