Subject: Age (Page 3)

She was old too, when she went to school they didn’t have history.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I’d like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

(1907 - 1990) American theatrical producer

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

(106 BC – 43 BC) Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator & political consul

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

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

(1885 – 1981) American writer, historian & philosopher

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Pushing fifty is exercise enough


The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

(1882 – 1941) English novelist, essayist, publisher & feminist

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

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

(384 BC – 322 BC) Greek philosopher

Man reaches each stage in his life as a novice.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed… it evens itself out.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Nostalgia is heroin for old people.

(1972 – ) Irish comedian & television presenter

After 60, all of us belong to the weaker sex.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

It was tough growing up in Florida because all my friends were retired.

(1959 – ) American comedian, comedy writer, actor & author

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

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

(1672 – 1719) English essasyist, poet & politician

I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.

(1882 – 1941) English novelist, essayist, publisher & feminist