Subject: Age (Page 9)

Ask any woman her age, and nine times out of ten she’ll guess wrong.

comedian

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music.

(1921 – 2009) British composer, pianist and radio & television presenter

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

(1955 – ) actor & comedian

Eighty is a wonderful age… especially if you’re ninety.

(1900 – 1973) American journalist & editor

You know how your friends are all morons, and they got the stories wrong all the time?… it’s the same here with the Bible.

(1960 – ) American stand-up comedian & writer

There are three terrible ages of childhood – 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

(1917 – 1998) author, critic, animal rights activist

Adolescence: A period in which children begin to question the answers.

When I broke in, they didn’t have bats – we just grabbed the branch of a tree.

American baseball pitcher

Biologically, I'm 10; chronologically, I'm 33, but in hockey years, I'm 66.


What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in-law.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

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

(1925 – ) English writer & editor

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

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

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

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

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

(1890 – 1957) author & journalist

I ask myself questions in those stores I don't ask myself anywhere else, like, 'Will I live long enough to use all those paper towels?'

American comedian & musician

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Looking fifty is great – if you're sixty.

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

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going; I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist