Subject: Age (Page 22)

Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever – but would rather not.

Between the ages of twelve and seventeen, a child may see his parents age twenty years.

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

American baseball player

I’ve been doing it [stealing from hotels] for so long, I have a set of towels from the Ark.

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

To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.

(1868 – 1936) Russian writer & political activist

You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

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

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else… and usually is.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

At my age, an affair of the heart is a bypass.

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

I'm getting so old my insurance company sends me 1/2 a calendar!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

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

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

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

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

The only good thing about [aging] is you’re not dead.

(1905 –1984) American playwright

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

Fiber: Edible wood-pulp said to aid digestion and prolong life, so that we might enjoy another six or eight years in which to consume wood-pulp.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter

You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

I was not a particularly small child; I was the one who always got picked to play Bethlehem in the school play.

(1957 – ) British stand-up comedian

That’s one you can tell your grandchildren about – tomorrow.

American baseball player

I’d rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

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

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

I said to my husband, ‘My boobs have gone, my stomach’s gone, say something nice about my legs;’ he said, ‘Blue goes with everything.’

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

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have remembrances of what never happened.

(1870 – 1916) British writer