Subject: Age (Page 20)

You are 32, you are rapidly approaching the age when your body, whether it embarrasses you or not, begins to embarrass other people.

English author, actor, humorist & playwright

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

(1667 – 1745) Irish satirist & essayist

As I get older I'm going to hear "You look great" a lot less than I'm going to hear "You look sick.”

American stand-up comedian

You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor's age by the rings on her fingers.

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

Man reaches each stage in his life as a novice.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

There are three ages of man – youth, middle age, and ‘you're looking wonderful.’

(1889 – 1967) American bishop & cardinal of the Catholic Church

He was young – He was fair – But the Injuns – Raised his hair

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

(1903 – 1974) English intellectual, literary critic & writer

Everyone I like stays the hell away from me.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

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

People with money live so damn long.

Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking.

(1961 – 1994) comedian

We all get heavier as we get older because there’s a lot more information in our heads.

professional basketball player

A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.

(1911 – 1989) television actress

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

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

She’ll never admit it, but I believe it is Mama.

(1917 – 2016) Hungarian-born American actress

I’d like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

(1907 - 1990) American theatrical producer

The young feel tired at the end of an action; the old at the beginning.

(1888 – 1965) British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet

I’m still going on bad dates, when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

I must admit he exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I’ve ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

movie character, in Kind Hearts And Coronets (Dennis Price)