Some Observations on Aging

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"If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in-law." (Eva Gabor)


"Old age comes at a bad time." (Ed Sullivan)


"Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened." (Stevie Wonder)


"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it." (Golda Meir)


"The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened. (Mark Twain)


"I'm at that age where my back goes out more than I do." (Phyllis Diller)


"Nice to be here? At my age, it's nice to be anywhere." (George Burns)


"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up; then, you forget to pull your zipper down." (Rob Reiner)


"You spend 90 percent of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10 percent trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not THAT tired." (Princess Grace)


"Old people shouldn't eat Health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get." (Bob Hope)


"At my age, flowers scare me." (George Burns)


"The years between 55 and 75 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down." (T.S Elliot)


"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us... at age 40, we don't care what they think of us... at age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all." (Ann Landers)


"When I was young, I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties, I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then, and I'm labeled senile." (Milton Berle)


"The important thing to remember is that I'm probably going to forget." (Martin Scorsese)


“We don't grow older, we grow riper." (Pablo Picasso)


"It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone." (Andy Rooney)


"The older I get, the better I used to be." (Lee Trevino)


"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they're cramming for their final exam." (George Carlin)


"Everything seems to slow down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips." (Elizabeth Taylor)


"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old." (Mark Twain)


"You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks." (Dennis Quaid)


"There's one advantage to being 102, there's no peer pressure." (Adam & Eve)


"There are three stages in man's Life: he believes in Santa Claus, he does not believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus." (Leon Phillips)


"Looking fifty is great — if you're sixty." (Joan Rivers)


"Time may be a great Healer, but it's a lousy Beautician." (Zsa Zsa Gabor)
 
It's nothing new, just different folks doing it. We are getting our turn. Sure got here quick.:chaplin:
 
I had several detectors, starting about 50 years ago & I knew lots of places to go, Civil War camps, old houses [even ~1800's], several stores that were empty & Churches, empty for years or GONE. I used detectors of some then but most not... now I don,t know who owns them >>> anyway
"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up; then, you forget to pull your zipper down."
 
As a sixteen year old country boy growing up in Texas on the Gulf Coast I had lots of opportunities to learn new things by listening to the Old Timers down at the local fishing hole. The most important thing I ever heard occurred on a fine early summer morning as a couple of senior brothers sat a few yards down stream from me. One of them said "you know Bubba, (causing my ears to perk up!) , as he took a puff on his hand rolled cigarette and a sip on his Lone Star beer, I gotta tell Ya,----------- if Yer movin, ---------- you ain't dead!!!

That comment just about blew my 16 year old mind!!! During my 82 years I have shared this story with many folks and never once regretted it!

Keep moving Friends,

CJ
 
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