Subject: Age (Page 7)

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

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

(1886 – 1962) English writer

The average age of our bench is deceased.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

One time a guy handed me a picture of himself, and he said, "Here's a picture of me when I was younger" … every picture of you is of when you were younger.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew Up

I didn’t see it [old age] coming — it hit me from the rear.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

We thought it was a bad idea you guys got married, but we didn’t feel like we could say anything because it was open bar.

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

(1906 – 1990) British historian

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

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

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

I am in the prime of senility.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

(1955 – ) actor & comedian

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face; my advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

(1901 – 2000) English author

There are younger Aztec ruins.

sportswriter & newspaper columnist

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

I said to my husband, ‘My boobs have gone, my stomach’s gone, say something nice about my legs;’ he said, ‘Blue goes with everything.’

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

Robins: I've just written my 87th book.
Barbara Cartland: I've written 145.
Robins: Oh I see, one a year.

(1897 – 1985) British novelist

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

1922) American actress, comedian & television personality

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

(384 BC – 322 BC) Greek philosopher