THE OLDER GENERATION You know you're a part of the older generation if you can't hear the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of The Lone Ranger.
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YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OLDER WHEN Everything hurts, and what doesn't hurt, doesn't work. The gleam in your eyes is from the sun hitting your bifocals. You feel like the night before, and you haven't…
THE HARD TRUTH ABOUT GROWING OLD We don't become more moral as we grow older, we just choose our sins more carefully. Funny, Funny World
HOW TO STAY HEALTHY THOUGH AGED The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists in the circulation of the blood. Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)
REALLY FAST Forget about jets, racing cars and speed boats. Nothing goes as fast as middle age. Funny, Funny World
SHARP AND OPEN FOR THE FUTURE A woman in a convalescent home was given a party to celebrate her one hundredth birthday. Her pastor came to offer his congratulations. Later, the pastor said, "Her mind…
WE EACH HAVE OUR OWN AGENDA Picture the scene: It is in the recreation room of a Californian retirement facility. Four ladies are playing bridge and chatting and keeping an eye on the flow of…
READY FOR RESURRECTION MORNING A true story is told about a distinguished man, the only white person buried in a Georgia cemetery reserved exclusively for blacks. He had lost his mother when he was just…
THE PARABLE OF THE UNBORN BABY Before you came into this world, you were an unborn baby. We all were. As we contemplate going from this world into another, we are again unborn babies so…
GROWING OLDER As people become older they tend to become more quiet. They have more to keep quiet about. Funny, Funny World
ATTITUDE TOWARDS AGE In the cartoon For Better Or Worse, it shows a mom looking into the mirror and carrying on a conversation with herself. She says, "My face is changing. It's not the same…
OPEN AND READY TO LEARN The Roman scholar Cato started to study Greek when he was over 80. Someone asked why he tackled such a difficult task at his age. Cato said, "It's the earliest…
THE ADVANTAGE OF MATURING Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman, in his late 50's, has no apprehension about old age. "It's like climbing a mountain," he says. "You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you…
HOW NOT TO GROW OLD -- DOUGLAS MacARTHUR Youth is not entirely a time of life -- it is a state of mind. It is not wholly a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips and…
EXPECTATIONS It was Aunt Sarah's birthday. Aunt Sarah was ninety-nine years old -- the oldest resident in a small town. Among the guests at her birthday party was her thirty-nine-year-old pastor. As the pastor was…
THE TRUTH WILL OUT WHEN THE CONTRACT IS SIGNED A reporter asked a man on his ninety-fifth birthday, "To what do you credit your long life?" The old-timer responded, "Well, I'm not sure yet. My…
BEAUTY OF MOTHER It was mid-October, and the trees along the Blue Ridge Parkway were ablaze with color. At an overlook, we stood next to a woman who was showing the view to her elderly…
THE PLODDERS FOR CHRIST When William Carey began thinking of going to India as a pioneer missionary, his father pointed out to him that he possessed no academic qualifications that would fit him for such…
ASPECTS OF AGING One of the most disturbing aspects of aging is the growing inability to recall vitally important information -- such as the gross national product of Liberia, the Greek alphabet, and where you…
THE SPIRIT OF CALEB -- THE REAL MC COY I recently read the new Word biography Bob Pierce: This One Thing I Do by Franklin Graham with Jeanette Lockerbie. Pierce, you may recall, was the…
