Subject: Age (Page 18)

The moment you're born you're done for.

1867 – 1931) English novelist

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Middle Age: When your age starts to show around your middle the art of raising eyebrows instead of the roof. 

She's all done up like a well-kept grave.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Larry King is so old, he's actually one of the Jews that killed Christ.

(1978 – ) American writer & stand-up comedian

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.

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

(1922 – 1973) Israeli teacher & child psychologist

The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

I am in the prime of senility.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

When you are over the hill, you pick up speed.

My wife and I are discussing whether we’re going to spank our child or not; I say wait ’til she does something wrong.

American comedian

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

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

(1925 – 2010) American film actor

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

(1908 – 1976) publisher & author

He is so old… when he was in school they didn’t teach history!

I know we were buddies because he threatened to kill me on no fewer than three occasions, and he did that only to his friends.

(1935) British film director, producer & food critic

Middle Age: That time of life when you'd rather not have a good time than recover from it. 

I have a lot of growing up to do; I realized that the other day inside my fort.

(1969 – ) comedian & actor

You know, you get that tattoo of barbed wire when you’re 18, but by the time you’re 80, it’s a picket fence.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn’t have to pay the extra fifty cents the adults had to pay.

(1947 – ) basketball player, coach & actor

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist