Subject: Age (Page 6)

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush the net.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

(1931 – 2005) American actor

I can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

(1912 – 1969) Norwegian figure skater & actress

I didn’t see [Christy] Mathewson, but Oquendo said he had a good slider.

American baseball player

Puberty: The awkward age when a child is too old to say something cute and too young to say something sensible.

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

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.

(1925 – ) English writer & editor

Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time… again.

(1970 –) American stand-up comedian

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

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

I’ll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

I personally stay away from natural foods; at my age I need all the preservatives I can get.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid; girls got pinned, not nailed.

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

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

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

My mother used to say: the older you get, the better you get… unless you’re a banana.

1922) American actress, comedian & television personality

I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Looking fifty is great – if you’re sixty.

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

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist

We've had bad luck with our kids… they've all grown up.

(1890 – 1957) author & journalist