Subject: Age (Page 26)

Middle Age: That period in life when your idea of getting ahead is staying even.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Adolescence is the best substitute ever invented for experience.

The only difference between friends and lovers is about four minutes.

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Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and started growing in the middle.

You Are Old: Sobering Affirmations for Your Rapidly Disappearing Life

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year, and I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

(1911 – 1986) American actor

Is it common for people to become a pothead at 40? … asking for myself.

(1970 –) American stand-up comedian

Kids… I like kids, but I couldn’t eat a whole one.

Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don’t think so… retired mermaids.

(1964 – ) English comedian

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

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

At my age, patience is not a virtue… it’s a luxury.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

My secret to staying young… having no sense of time.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

I was getting dressed and a peeping Tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade.

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

Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty.

(1970 – ) American stand-up comedian & voice actor

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Age: The time when everything hurts and what doesn’t hurt, doesn’t work.