Subject: Age (Page 19)

As you grow older, you stand for more and fall for less.

The young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

(1882 – 1941) English novelist, essayist, publisher & feminist

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

stand-up comedian

Ask anybody over 30 – if they tell you they have more than 10 friends, you know they’re counting co-workers.

American comedian & television host

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit it that far.

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

Middle-age is the time of life, that a man first notices – in his wife.

(1906 – 1989) American poet & author

Growing old is compulsory – growing up is optional.

(1928 – 2003) English entertainer

Age: The time when everything hurts and what doesn’t hurt, doesn’t work.

There are younger Aztec ruins.

sportswriter & newspaper columnist

Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

She may very well pass for forty three… in the dusk with the light behind her.

(1836 – 1911) English dramatist, librettist, poet & illustrator

The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Youth: A good substitute for experience.

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

(1955 – ) actor & comedian

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

book publisher

I was getting dressed and a peeping Tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade.

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

The reason old men use Viagra is not that they are impotent. It’s that old women are so very ugly.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

When our friends get into power, they aren’t our friends any more.

Adolescence is the best substitute ever invented for experience.

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist