Subject: Age (Page 17)

I smoke 10 to 15 cigars a day, at my age I have to hold on to something.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

(1921 – ) U.S. senator (Ohio) Marine Corps pilot & astronaut

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

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

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

(1879 – 1964) British politician

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

(1802 – 1885) French writer

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

(1955 – ) actor & comedian

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.

(1925 – ) English writer & editor

Class Reunion: A gathering where you come to the conclusion that most of the people your own age are a lot older than you are.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

When we’re young, we want to change the world… when we’re old, we want to change the young.

book publisher

Youth: The first fifty years of your life… the first twenty of anyone else’s.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic

I'm not saying older women are sluttier; I'm just saying, an older woman isn't gonna make you wait 'til three in the morning 'cause she's got shit to do the next day.

American comedian

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

(1888 – 1972) French actor, singer & entertainer

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

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

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

(1874 – 1963) American poet