Subject: Age (Page 6)

True friends stab you in the front.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

A study says owning a dog makes you 10 years younger; my first thought was to rescue two more, but I don’t want to go through menopause again.

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

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve; middle age is when you're forced to.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous; when I was sixty-five, I still had pimples.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

I smoke 10 to 15 cigars a day, at my age I have to hold on to something.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

What's the advantage of having a kid at 49?… you can both be in diapers at the same time?

stand-up comedian

Teenagers: People who get hungry again before the dishes are even washed.

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

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Growing old is compulsory – growing up is optional.

(1928 – 2003) English entertainer

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian

When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

Looking fifty is great – if you're sixty.

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

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

(1898 – 1971) American humorist

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

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

When you’re older than the manager and the general manger, that’s not a good sign.

American baseball player

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

(384 BC – 322 BC) Greek philosopher

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator