Subject: Age (Page 24)

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

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

He has become the oldest living cute boy in the world.

(1953 – ) American author, journalist & opinion columnist

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going; I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Forty: The most difficult age for a woman to pass; it often takes years.

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

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

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

(1908 – 1973) 36th U.S. president

You know you’re getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don’t know anyone who can see through it.

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

It was traumatic for me — not as traumatic as turning gay.

television executive & comedian

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

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

Anyone can get old; all you have to do is live long enough.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

(1841 – 1935) American jurist & Supreme Court justice

I'm a little kid; I'm gone 12, 13, 14 hours… I don't remember anybody coming looking for me… no Amber Alert goes off.

American comedian

They tell you that you’ll lose your mind when you grow older; what they don’t tell you is that you won’t miss it much.


When we’re young, we want to change the world… when we’re old, we want to change the young.

book publisher

Adult: One who has ceased to grow vertically, but not horizontally.

writer

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

After the age of 80, you seem to be having breakfast every day.

(1907 – 2005) was an English poet & playwright

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

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them

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

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

American baseball player