Some thoughts and quotes about ageing
  [old codger in rocking chair] Growing old
Ungracefully
 
 

The Middle Age

"Middle-age is when your medicine chest is better stocked than your drinks cabinet."
Pam Brown

"Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it."
Laurence Peter

"Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognise you."
Bennet cerf

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

"Middle age is when, instead of combing you hair, you start arranging it."
Herbert Kavet

Middle aged people may be divided into three classes

Those who are still young
Those who have forgotten they were young
Those who were never young
Lord Dawson of Penn 		 
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The Age of Denial

"Old age is always fifteen years older than I am"
Bernard Baruch

The policemen get younger each year.

 
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The Wrinkly Age ~~~~

"My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled."
Red Skelton

"You know you're getting older when you try to straighten out the wrinkles in your socks, and discover you're not wearing any."
Leonard Knott

"First you forget names,
then you forget faces,
then you forget to pull your zipper up,
then you forget to pull your zipper down."
Leo Rosenberg

"There are three signs of old age. Loss of memory, .... I forget the other two."
Red Skelton

 
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And finally

"Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."
Groucho Marx

"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative."
Maurice Chevalier

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Holmes

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