Subject: Age (Page 17)

Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew Up

I wouldn’t be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

(1925 – 2010) American film actor

My grandmother died having sex… I still cry every time I watch the video.

(Uncle Lar) American comedian

When you’re in your 20s and 30s and you drop some weight, people notice, they’re nice about it… they’re like, ‘Hey man, you look good!' … but when you’re in your 40s and you lose weight, people are like, ‘You doin’ all right?'

(1963 – ) American comedian & author

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday; I tell them, a paternity suit.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

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

(1955 – ) actor & 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’re getting older when you don’t care where your wife goes, just so you don’t have to go along

The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are ‘age appropriate’ … for me that would be a shroud.

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

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, we’re both getting discounts.

(1970 –) American stand-up comedian

Teenagers: Those old enough to know everything.

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

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

I said to my husband, ‘My boobs have gone, my stomach’s gone, say something nice about my legs;’ he said, ‘Blue goes with everything.’

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

She has discovered the secret of perpetual middle age.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

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

(1886 – 1962) English writer

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

True friends stab you in the front.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them

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

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

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