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Old Age

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Old Age

"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two."

"At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual."

"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you."

Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone's sitting in a rocker, it won't be long before someone's sitting in their lap.

Old people drive too close to the car behind them.

Fun is like life insurance - the older you get, the more it costs.

3 stages of life - youth, middle age and "You're looking great"

60 is basically the 'out' age - everything spreads out, falls out or wears out.

I don't know how old you are but you don't look it.

Hardest decision you ever have to make is when to start Middle Age

Usual definition is anyone 10 years older than you.

Middle age is when, faced with 2 temptations, you choose the one that will get you home earliest.

Middle Age - when your knees buckle and your belt won't.

Middle Age is that time of life when we hear two voices - "Why not?" and "Why bother?"

Every generation imagines they are more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

She holds her age well - she's been 45 for years.

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

Nancy Reagan asked how old she was:"I haven't decided yet." But she was outed by WashPo: "Nancy Reagan, 62, celebrated her 60th birthday yesterday"

Mick Jagger reckoned his wrinkles were laughter lines. Nothing's that funny.

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what the hell happened.

So old his blood type's been discontinued.

A man is as old as the woman he feels.

Being "over the hill" is much better than being under it!

Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up.

Old Age: a high price to pay for maturity

Having more friends under the ground than above it.

When you get up in the middle of the night as often as George Clooney, but not for the same reason

I've never heard of a 110 year old person being notable for anything else.

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