Subject: Age (Page 23)

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

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

People with money live so damn long.

Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

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

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

He's great to the old guys. He's got one trainer just to treat varicose veins.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday; I tell them, a paternity suit.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

True friends stab you in the front.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

There are younger Aztec ruins.

sportswriter & newspaper columnist

Senescence begins and middle age ends, the day your descendants outnumber your friends.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.

(1922 – ) English comedy writer & television presenter

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Youth: The first fifty years of your life… the first twenty of anyone else’s.

I refuse to admit I'm more than 52, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

(1879 – 1964) British politician

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor