Subject: Age (Page 23)

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

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

The thing about getting old is the number of things you think that you can’t say aloud because it would be too shocking.

(1919 – 2013) British writer, poet & playwright

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

True friends stab you in the front.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

I’m a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me.

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

I can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

He is so old… I told him to act his own age, and he died.

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

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

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

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

Tommy John is so old, he uses Absorbine Senior.

(1952 – ) American sportscaster

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed… it evens itself out.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

(1928 – ) humorist, singer, songwriter & satirist

I'm 34 years old; I thought I'd be divorced by now.

American comedian

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

(1754 – 1838) French prime minister & diplomat

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.

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

When you feel that you would like to go back to your youth, think of algebra.

Teenagers: People who get hungry again before the dishes are even washed.

Looking fifty is great – if you’re sixty.

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