SENIORS - (AGING)

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“Do not cast me off in my old age, do not abandon me in my old age.” – King David – Psalms 71:9 – HOLY SCRIPTURES

The wisdom of the wise, the experience of the ages, may be preserved by quotation. – Benjamin Disraeli

By the time you’re eighty years old, you’ve learned everything.  You only have to remember it. – George Burns

The best thing about being 104 years old is…no peer pressure. – 104-year old woman

I’ve learned that the best classroom in the world is at the foot of some elderly person. – Andy Rooney

We don’t stop playing because we get old; we get old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. - Daniel Auber (French composer)                                                                     

Just remember, I know a whole lot more about being young than you know about being old. – A father to his teenage son

Wisdom is “earned” knowledge. – Wilfred Owen 

The first forty years of life give us the text—the next thirty give us the commentary on it. – Arthur Schopenhauer                                                                         

The past is the source of knowledge and the future is the source of hope.  Love of the past implies faith in the future. – Stephen Ambrose – FAST COMPANY

Nothing is ours except time. – Marcus Seneca                                                          

A man should never be ashamed to say that he has been wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. – Alexander Pope

My memory is not as sharp as it used to be…My memory is, uh, not as sharp as it used to be…My memory is not as... – Uh…my…Where’s my driver’s license???       

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age.  Sometimes age just shows up by itself. – Tom Wilson                                         

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – George Carlin

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you will never grow out of it. – Unknown

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“Even in old age they will still be thriving.  They will remain vigorous and fresh.” – David  – Ps. 92:14 – HOLY SCRIPTURES

Being 80 is a lot better than being 70.  At 70 people are mad at you for everything.  At 80, you have the perfect excuse, no matter what you do.  It’s your second childhood. – Ann Landers       

I’ve learned that being kind is more important than being right. – Andy Rooney

Old age is the time of life when you know all the answers and nobody asks you the questions. – Unknown – He may have died before anyone asked him the question.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. – Paul Coelho

Middle age is when age starts to show around your middle. – Bob Hope 

Always remember this:  You don’t stop laughing because you grow old…You grow old because you stop laughing! – Maurice Chevalier       

It is not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get OLD. – George Burns

Growing old is mandatory—growing up is optional. – Chili Davis

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age—I missed it coming and going. – J. B. Priestley

Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children. – George Bernard Shaw            

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? – Satchel Paige     

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. – Jerry M. Wright

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest.  You are always beings asked to do more, but you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. – T. S. Elliot – 1950

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. – Herbert Asquith

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years.  Your body changes, but you don’t change at all.  And that, of course, causes great confusion. – Doris Lessing

Life is one long process of getting tired. – Samuel Butler – NOTEBOOKS           

An archeologist is the best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. – Agatha Christie

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“The glory of young men is their strength, and the splendor of old men is their gray hair.” –King Solomon – Prov. 20:29 – HOLY SCRIPTURES

I’ve learned that you should never say “no” to a gift from a child. – Andy Rooney

Don’t wait until you’re too old or sick to have time to repent! – Gary Pulliam

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty—they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. – Martin Buxbaum                  

When you’re a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you get older, it’s a straight part. – Laurence Olivier                                                                                 

As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor school of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am. – Erma Bombeck                                                           

Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem.  My chest has fallen into my drawers. – Billy Casper, about golf’s senior tour.                          

One of the great parts about getting older? You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless. – Liz Smith                                                                             

I don’t do alcohol anymore—I get the same effect by standing up fast. – Unknown

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. – Oscar Wilde – THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY – 1891                                                          

You know you’re getting old when all the names in your little black book end in M.D. – Anold Palmer                                                                                 

The elderly don’t drive that badly; they’re just the ones with time to do the speed limit. – Jason Love                                                                                      

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. – Mark Twain                                                  

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather.Later he played my father and finally he played my husband.  If he had lived I’m sure I would have played his mother.  That’s the way it is in Hollywood.  The men get younger and the women get older. – Lillian Gish               

Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, and not the toy. – Unknown                       

They talk about the economy this year.  Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is inflation.  Altogether, I’m in a depression. – Rick Majerus (Basketball coach)                           

We are only young once.  That’s all society can stand. – Bob Bowen         

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“Never let anyone look down on your youth.  Instead, become an example to the faithful ones in speaking, in conduct, in love, in faith, in chasteness.” – Apostle Paul –1 Tim. 4:12– HOLY SCRIPTURES

Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving. – Unknown                       

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

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. – Kurt Vonnegut                                                                    

I’ve learned we should be glad God doesn’t give us everything we ask for. – Andy Rooney             

A birthday is just another 365-day journey around the sun.  Enjoy the trip. – Anonymous                   

Love is a word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle–aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. – John Ciardi

No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living. – Marie Benyon Ray                   

Old is when going braless pulls all the wrinkles out of your face. – Anonymous      

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue, and what you are is the point. – Susan Sarandan                              

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. – Italian proverb

One today is worth two tomorrows. – Benjamin Franklin                                  

My mother never kissed me; she never put her arms around me and hugged me or told me she loved me.  I spent my childhood in fear of her, hiding from her, avoiding her critical gaze.  – Roberta Satow – DOING THE RIGHT THING: TAKING CARE OF YOUR ELDERLY PARENTS EVEN IF THEY DIDN’T TAKE CARE OF YOU

Go on failing.  Go on.  Only next time try to fail better. – Samuel Beckett

A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time—pills or stairs. – Joan Welsh 

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry. – John Jensen                                                                                           

To remember is to understand.  I have never forgotten it.  A good judge remembers what it was like to be a good lawyer.  A good editor remembers being a writer.  A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child. – Anna Quindlen – THINKING OUT LOUD

The only things that get better with age is wisdom, good liquor and old architecture. – Gary Pulliam

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“For wisdom is a protection just as money is a protection, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves the life of its owner.” – Solomon –Eccl. 7:12 – HOLY SCRIPTURES

Life’s tragedy is that we get too old too soon and wise too late. – Benjamin Franklin

“Bill’s thirty-two.  He looks thirty-two.  He looked it five years ago.  He’ll look it twenty years from now.  I hate men!” – Margo Channing (Bette Davis) to Karen (Celeste Holm.)               -- ALL ABOUT EVE – Joseph L. Mankiewicz – 1950