Subject: Age (Page 21)

You know you’re getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it.

(1953 – ) American comedian, actor, voice artist, & columnist

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve; middle age is when you're forced to.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

Centenarian: A person who has lived to be one hundred years old. He never smoked or he smoked all his life. He used whiskey for eighty years or he never used it. He was a vegetarian or he wasn’t a vegetarian.

You Are Old: Sobering Affirmations for Your Rapidly Disappearing Life

I didn’t see [Christy] Mathewson, but Oquendo said he had a good slider.

American baseball player

Say Satch, tell me, was Abraham Lincoln a crouch hitter?

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

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

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

Senility: A cleansing of the mental blackboard shortly before class is dismissed.

They tell you that you’ll lose your mind when you grow older; what they don’t tell you is that you won’t miss it much.


She is so old… her dreams are in black and white.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

(1672 – 1719) English essasyist, poet & politician

Middle age: When a woman’s hair starts turning from gray to black.

If you want to know what you’ll look like in ten years, look in the mirror after you’ve run a marathon.

American cardiologist & marathoner

You’ll have to ask somebody older than me.

(1883 – 1983) American composer, lyricist & pianist

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

(427 BC – 347 BC) Greek author & philosopher

I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

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

(1959 – ) American comedian

Is it common for people to become a pothead at 40? … asking for myself.

(1970 –) American stand-up comedian

The number of women a man find attractive is truly proportionate to his age.

If something’s old and you’re trying to sell it, it’s obsolete; if you’re trying to buy it, it’s a collector’s item.