Subject: Age (Page 28)

You know you’ve reached middle age when you’re told to slow down by your doctor instead of the police.

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

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

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

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

There’s one advantage to being 102, there’s no peer pressure.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

(1887 – 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist & poet

Youth: That brief period, as distinguished from childhood or middle age, when the sexes talk to each other at a party.

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

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

When our friends get into power, they aren’t our friends any more.

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

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

He’s so old his social security number is two digits.