Subject: Age (Page 8)

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snowblower or vacuum cleaner.

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

stand-up comedian

The only good thing about [aging] is you’re not dead.

(1905 –1984) American playwright

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

American baseball player

To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.

(1868 – 1936) Russian writer & political activist

Whatever happened to the good old days when kids was scared to death of their parents?

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

A sexagenarian? At his age? I think that’s disgusting!

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

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president

You might be a redneck if… an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger changed your life.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old… unfortunately there’s never one around.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

Only thing that’s worse than walking in on your parents making love is walking in on your grandparents making love.

(1969 – ) comedian & actor

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing.

(1885 – 1981) American writer, historian & philosopher

I'm not saying older women are sluttier; I'm just saying, an older woman isn't gonna make you wait 'til three in the morning 'cause she's got shit to do the next day.

American comedian

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much… then again, don’t drink too little.

I feel I can talk with more authority, especially when I say, ‘I don’t know.’

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have remembrances of what never happened.

(1870 – 1916) British writer

The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.