Subject: Age (Page 20)

Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

I’m throwing as hard as I ever did, but the ball is just not getting there as fast.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

When men reach their sixties and retire they go to pieces; women just go on cooking.


If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty.

(1965 – ) comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer & director

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

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

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

Adult: One who has ceased to grow vertically, but not horizontally.

writer

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

I don’t look older, I just look worse.

(1982 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer

Regardless of their age, most folks are not as old as they hope to be.

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

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

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

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened.

singer & musician

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother’s singing.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must’ve been something before electricity.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.

(1959 – ) American comedian

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed… it evens itself out.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I don’t want to lose weight; my tongue and my taste buds are the only friends I got.

American stand-up comedian

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

(1908 – 1973) 36th U.S. president