Subject: Age (Page 25)

Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.

(1918 – 2002) Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet & playwright

As you grow older, you stand for more and fall for less.

The young feel tired at the end of an action; the old at the beginning.

(1888 – 1965) British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet

To what do I attribute my longevity? … bad luck.

(1908 – 1999) English writer

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

(1900 – 1993) American actress

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face; my advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

(1901 – 2000) English author

Nostalgia is heroin for old people.

(1972 – ) Irish comedian & television presenter

Old Age: When you wink at a girl and she says, “Something wrong with your eyes?”

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

Sometimes I feel that I’m not just aging… I’m decomposing.

(1949 – ) American federal judge

Whatever happened to the good old days when kids was scared to death of their parents?

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

At my age flowers scare me.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

At my age, an affair of the heart is a bypass.

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

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing.

(1885 – 1981) American writer, historian & philosopher

We all get heavier as we get older because there’s a lot more information in our heads.

professional basketball player

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

Larry King is so old, he's actually one of the Jews that killed Christ.

(1978 – ) American writer & stand-up comedian

Until I was 13, I thought my name was ‘Shut Up.’

(1943 – ) American football player

I believe in loyalty… when a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.

(1919 – 1995) Hungarian-born American socialite & actress