TWO THINGS AT ONCE Old age is when a person notices that his shoe lace is untied and asks himself: "Is there anything else I can do down there when I lean over to tie…
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AN OUTDOOR MAN When a 90-year-old Ozarker was asked how he kept in such good condition, he gave this answer: "When my wife and I married 60 years ago, she and I agreed that if…
THE MIRROR'S REVENGE Childhood: When you make funny faces in the mirror. Middle Age: When the mirror gets even. From the bulletin of the Rotary Club of Atlantic, Iowa
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LEADERS OR BABIES In "The Last Days Newsletter," Leonard Ravenhill tells about a group of tourists visiting a picturesque village who walked by an old man sitting beside a fence. In a rather patronizing way,…
TOO SHORT FOR LITTLE Life is too short to be little. -- Disraeli
TOO OLD TO KNOW IT ALL I am not young enough to know everything. -- James M. Barrie
Middle age is when broadness of mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
Regarding my age... it's just that I have too much sand in the bottom of my hourglass.
By the time a man can afford to buy one of those exotic little sports cars, he's too fat to get into it.
IN A NURSING HOME A minister went to visit the elderly couple that just entered a nursing home. The wife had been losing touch with reality to a point that it really wasn't safe for…
MARK TWAIN ON AGING In his seventies in January of 1906, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote to his friends the Gordons in response to their invitation to their golden wedding anniversary. This is a sad…
MUTUAL HAPPINESS Few things in this world is more satisfying than a good marriage. A young couple was visiting with an older couple celebrating their fiftieth anniversary. "Fifty years!" one of them exclaimed. "That's a…
CIRCUMSTANCES REVEAL US A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which had not been obvious to the superficial observer. From Dickens: His Character,…
MARK TWAIN ON LOST YOUTH Ah, the dreams of our youth, how beautiful they are, and how perishable! The ruins of these might-have-beens, how pathetic! The heart-secrets that were revealed that night now so long…
AGE FIVE MATURITY To become really mature is to return to the age of five, to be able to recapture the capacity for absorption, for learning, to recapture the tremendous hunger to master skills that…
LEFTOVERS Aging asphalt groaned beneath the Texas heat as the forenoon grasshoppers chorused the countryside with clarion commotion. A pervading scent signaled leftover wildflowers slowly and surely becoming useful seed. The old Farm-to-Market Road mourns…
LIVING REVENGE Bumper sticker wisdom -- "Get revenge: Live long enough to be a problem to your children."
GRATITUDE AGES QUICKLY Martin Luther laid stress on the old Latin proverb, "Nothing ages more quickly than gratitude." From Doubt, by Os Guinness, pg. 62
There are few women who will admit their age. There are fewer men who will act theirs.
FORGOTTEN MEMORY You know you are in trouble when you can't remember your earliest memory.