Subject: Age (Page 7)

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

I am pushing sixty… that is enough exercise for me.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Nostalgia is heroin for old people.

(1972 – ) Irish comedian & television presenter

I've only got one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it.

(1875 – 1997) French, 120 year old woman

The thing about getting old is the number of things you think that you can’t say aloud because it would be too shocking.

(1919 – 2013) British writer, poet & playwright

I don’t plan to grow old gracefully; I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

I'm 34 years old; I thought I'd be divorced by now.

American comedian

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

(384 BC – 322 BC) Greek philosopher

I’ve been doing it [stealing from hotels] for so long, I have a set of towels from the Ark.

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

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

1922) American actress, comedian & television personality

Sex at 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses… drinks right out of the bottle.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

I told my doctor I wanna stop aging, he gave me a gun!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

The older you get, the faster you ran as a kid.

professional football player & coach

I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

(1933 – 2006) politician

I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

I knew her before she was a virgin.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

We grow too soon old and too late smart.

A woman’s always younger than a man at equal years.

(1806 – 1861) English poet

That dame is older than the Continental Shelf!

(1944 – ) American actor, director & producer

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist