Subject: Age (Page 5)

They tell you that you’ll lose your mind when you grow older; what they don’t tell you is that you won’t miss it much.


After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

(1913 – 1990) American actress

The average age of our bench is deceased.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

It is not the years in your life that count, it is the life in your years.

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

I was born when my dad was 50; it’s weird growing up with a dad that much older than you… we’d go to the movies and we’re both getting discounts.

(1970 –) American stand-up comedian

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

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

(1908 – 1976) publisher & author

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

Well Kerry, you’re 19 and you’re a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself.

English football player

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

(1921 – ) U.S. senator (Ohio) Marine Corps pilot & astronaut

I’m still going on bad dates, when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

In Los Angeles, by the time you’re 35, you’re older than most of the buildings.

(1941 – 2012) American novelist, producer, screenwriter & director

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

(1927 – 1989) author, essayist & environmentalist

We were a generation born too late to eat goldfish and too early to flash.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our to amuse them.

(1903 – 1966) English writer

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Middle Age: That period when a man begins to shed his hair, his teeth, and his illusions.

I am just turning forty and taking my time about it.

(1893 – 1971) American film actor & producer