Subject: Age (Page 22)

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

He may be the only kicker to kick and collect Social Security at the same time.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

20 to 40 is the fillet steak of life; after that it’s all short cuts.

(1922 – 1985) English poet & novelist

Adolescence is that time of life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.

(1922 – 1973) Israeli teacher & child psychologist

You know, you get that tattoo of barbed wire when you’re 18, but by the time you’re 80, it’s a picket fence.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

I can still enjoy sex at 74; I live at 75, so it's no distance.

(1928 – 2003) English entertainer

I've dated men my age, younger than me and older and the only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

(1970 – ) American film & television actress

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was so poor I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

She has discovered the secret of perpetual middle age.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

(1916 – 1986) American poet, translator & etymologist

Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

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

Adolescence is the time in life when a youngster is well informed about anything he doesn’t have to study.

The Houston Astros are the youngest team in the National League if you judge by age.

American baseball pitcher & announcer

When I broke in, they didn’t have bats – we just grabbed the branch of a tree.

American baseball pitcher

My wife and I are discussing whether we’re going to spank our child or not; I say wait ’til she does something wrong.

American comedian