Subject: Age (Page 28)

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can’t suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

I was born nine months premature.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comic

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother’s singing.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

There are no old people nowadays; they are either 'wonderful for their age' or dead.

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When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow and now that I’m old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.

(1915 – 2001) English astronomer & mathematician

If you eat one apple a day for 80 years, you won't die young.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter

Birthdays are nice to have, but too many of them will kill a person.

If something’s old and you’re trying to sell it, it’s obsolete; if you’re trying to buy it, it’s a collector’s item.

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

My wife and I are discussing whether we’re going to spank our child or not; I say wait ’til she does something wrong.

American comedian

Do not worry about avoiding temptation; as you grow older it will avoid you.

(1911 – 1999) comedian, author & columnist

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

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor