Subject: Age (Page 28)

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Zeal: A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.

(1956 – ) American comedian

I still feel 30, except when I try to run.

(1929 – ) American comedian & comic actor

Oh, to be seventy again.

(1841 – 1929) French statesman, physician & journalist

I’m getting pretty worried; my girlfriend hasn’t gotten her period… and she’s already 14.

(1978 – ) American writer & stand-up comedian

I've only got one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it.

(1875 – 1997) French, 120 year old woman

I’m 50 years of old.

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

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you’ll grow out of it.

(1924 – ) American actress & singer

Children are a great comfort in your old age… and they help you reach it faster too.

Regardless of their age, most folks are not as old as they hope to be.

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

So I was jealous of her [her sister] when she was fourteen and I was nineteen. I’m sure it’ll be different now that we’re both thirty-five.

1922) American actress, comedian & television personality

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.

(1922 – 1973) Israeli teacher & child psychologist

We grow too soon old and too late smart.