Subject: Age (Page 16)

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

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

Old age is like learning a new profession; and not one of your own choosing.

(1907 – ) French-born American historian of ideas & culture

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

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist

You’ll have to ask somebody older than me.

(1883 – 1983) American composer, lyricist & pianist

I’m 65. People say I look 55. I feel 45. I’d settle for 35 and you make me feel 25.

(1922 – 1991) American comedian

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going; I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I am pushing sixty… that is enough exercise for me.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

[Memorial services are the] cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

(1902 – 1983) English actor

Sex at eighty-four is terrific, especially the one in the winter.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.

(1959 – ) American comedian

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to.

(1936 – 2014) American standup comedian, actor & author

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

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

(1908 – 1976) publisher & author

The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

I didn’t see it [old age] coming — it hit me from the rear.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

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

When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

(1927 – 1989) author, essayist & environmentalist

The trick is growing up without growing old.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Birthdays are nice to have, but too many of them will kill a person.