Subject: Age (Page 23)

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery

writer

First you forget names, then you forget faces… next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

She is so old… she used to baby-sit Jesus.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they're cramming for their final exam.

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

Regarding my family, I’m the youngest of three; my parents are both older.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

She is so old… she's in God's year book.

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

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

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

I'm in a restaurant one time, we go to the men's room – my grandfather was standing by the condom machine going, 'Hey, this gum has got no flavor.'

American comedian & actor

So I was jealous of her [her sister] when she was fourteen and I was nineteen. I’m sure it’ll be different now that we’re both thirty-five.

1922) American actress, comedian & television personality

I wouldn’t be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

(1925 – 2010) American film actor

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

I am just turning forty and taking my time about it.

(1893 – 1971) American film actor & producer

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

(427 BC – 347 BC) Greek author & philosopher

He has a profound respect for old age… especially when it’s bottled.

(1890 – 1960) journalist, author & dramatist

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

I’m at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me, I’m profoundly grateful to her.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I have everything now I had twenty years ago – except now it’s lower.

(1911 – 1970) American burlesque entertainer, actress, author & playwright