Subject: Age (Page 18)

Adolescents: People who never seem to realize that one day they will be as dumb as their parents.

I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42.

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

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Tommy John is so old, he uses Absorbine Senior.

(1952 – ) American sportscaster

I was born in 1962… and the room next to me was 1963.

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

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

You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

(1916 – 1986) American poet, translator & etymologist

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

I’m like old wine; they don't bring me out very often, but I’m well preserved.

(1890 – 1995) American philanthropist & wife of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.

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

He's as old as some trees.

Canadian hockey player & coach

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

(1841 – 1935) American jurist & Supreme Court justice

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

He’s 31 this year – last year he was 30.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good book… or a friend who’s read one.

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

What's the advantage of having a kid at 49?… you can both be in diapers at the same time?

stand-up comedian

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

Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

To what do I attribute my longevity? … bad luck.

(1908 – 1999) English writer

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

(1956 – ) author & movie actress