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60's and Upwards

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Quotes and Sayings

· How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was? (Satchel Paige)

· About the time you learn to make the most of life, most of it is gone!

· Age is a matter of the mind--if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

· The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

· In youth we learn; in age we understand. (Marie Ebner-Eschenbach)

· None are as old as those who have outlived enthusiasm! (Henry David Thoreau)

· One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it is such a nice change from being young.

· The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years, but the one with the richest experiences. (Rousseau)

· Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character. (Ralph Barton Perry)

· Ah, being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.

· Anyone who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

· Beautiful young people are acts of nature. Beautiful old people are works of art.

· By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. (Marie Dressler)

· The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

· For the unlearned old age is winter: for the learned it is the season of harvest. (The Talmud)

· I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. (Bob Seger in Against the Wind)

· If wrinkles must be written upon our brows; let them not be written on the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

· It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment; in these qualities old age is usually not only poorer, but is even richer. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

· It takes a long time to become young. (Pablo Picasso)

· Old age ain't no place for sissies. (Bette Davis)

· It is better to wear out than to rust out. (Richard Chamberland)

· It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.

· It's not how old you are, but how you are old.

· Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back,

you'll get to enjoy it a second time.

· A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. (Jean Rostand)

· A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. (John Barrymore)

· A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

· What a young person thinks of as 'pain' is often merely the absence of pleasure; What an old person thinks of as 'pleasure' is often just the absence of pain.

· No wise man ever wanted to be young again. (Swift)

· Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! (Leo Buscaglia)

· The sad part about getting old is that you stay young on the inside...but nobody can tell.

· Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty--they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. (Martin Buxbaum)

· Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know why I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.

· Southern Florida is filled with people sixty-eight years old who were going to do something big in their lives but waited until it was safe. Now it's safe and they're sixty-eight years old. (from The Drifters by James A. Michener)

· The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. (Plato)

· There are days of oldness, and then one gets young again. (Katherine Butler Hathaway)

· There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone, but years after, we know it was much later.

· These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. (Virginia Woolf)

· Time flies whether you're having fun of not.

· To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent--that is to triumph over old age. (Thomas Bailey Aldrich)

· You take all the experience and judgement of men over fifty out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it. (Henry Ford)

· The trick is to live a long time without growing old.

· We are not limited by our old age; we are liberated by it. (Stu Mittleman)

· What grows never grows old. (Noah Benshea)

· When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. (Victor Hugo)

· When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. (Abraham Joshua Heschel)

· When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. (I. F. Stone)

· Friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

· The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you have been. (Madeleine L'Engle)

· Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. (Mark Twain)

· You are young at any age if you are still planning for tomorrow.

Retirement Years

Time is a wonderful thing

To have on your side at last.

Look forward with faith to the future,

Accept with peace the past.

Time for travel, fun and adventure,

To discover new dimensions in yourself.

It is time to do what pleases you,

Take a dusty dream off the shelf.

Fulfillment is found in expression,

Priorities are yours to arrange.

Retirement is just another word,

For what can be a wonderful change.

Bee Ewing ©

I'm Not Really 60

That's not my age, it's just not true.

My heart is young, the time just flew.

I'm staring at this strange old face,

and someone else is in my place!

This age old thing is not for me.

Concessions given, prescriptions free.

I'll just pretend I'm in my prime.

To age too fast would be a crime.

I'm just not 60 in my head.

It's still so long till I am dead,

So please don't see me in that way

I'm staying young, if that's OK!

Ms M J Hill ©

Granny

Her smile can light up a room

Her presence is of grace

Her opinions are heard without one word

but by the look upon her face

Her touch is so gentle

Her heart as big as the moon

Her spirit is kindhearted

and warm as a summer's afternoon

Her hair a river of gray

Her eyes radiant as the sun

Her time she'll take no matter how long

until the work is done

Her kisses are so soft

Her hugs preferred from the rest

My granny is mine forever and ever

and she'll always be the best.

Demecia Dean ©

Grandma

Grandma, you were so sweet;

Like honey from a bee.

You always told me stories

As I sat there on your knee.

You always made me giggle

When I saw your smiling face.

You made my world such a special,

Happy, friendly place.

Megan Field ©

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