Originally posted by apathistThanks. The following thread would, also, have seen the light of day:
Hell no, Bobby. Kick it louder.
Calling the Shots
Of all the abhorrent expressions of human physical intimacywhich calls ths shots: genes; environment;
peer pressure; emotional, psychological or medical abnormalities; volitional will (personal choice); other?
Discuss.
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Before you leave, Bob, I would like to tell you something. I have finally reached my pinnacle at a very old age. I like being over 80. Younger people are helpful and respectful. My wrinkles seem to set people at ease. My wit is appreciated...as well as my "wisdom". I no longer fear performing in public, speaking in public, or speaking my mind on occasion. I am making five times as much money 12 hours a week as I did at age 21 in a 40+ hour week. (That was 60 years ago, in case you did not already know). I have more empathy, more love, more patience, and more humor than I did 60 years ago. Hang in there! You may find it true when you reach my age! Audrey
Originally posted by ale1552Wow, I'm not worthy, at least not yet🙂 Have a bit to go yet. What do you do for living?
Before you leave, Bob, I would like to tell you something. I have finally reached my pinnacle at a very old age. I like being over 80. Younger people are helpful and respectful. My wrinkles seem to set people at ease. My wit is appreciated...as well as my "wisdom". I no longer fear performing in public, speaking in public, or speaking my mind on occasion ...[text shortened]... than I did 60 years ago. Hang in there! You may find it true when you reach my age! Audrey
Originally posted by ale1552Lady, Audrey, you're appreciated and loved by many here... even though disliked, laughed at and ridiculed by a few. Here's a big, autumn bouquet of apropos and insightful quotes for you to enjoy:
Before you leave, Bob, I would like to tell you something. I have finally reached my pinnacle at a very old age. I like being over 80. Younger people are helpful and respectful. My wrinkles seem to set people at ease. My wit is appreciated...as well as my "wisdom". I no longer fear performing in public, speaking in public, or speaking my mind on occasi ...[text shortened]... than I did 60 years ago. Hang in there! You may find it true when you reach my age! Audrey
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ~Doug Larson
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ~Samuel Ullman
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. ~Douglas MacArthur
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. ~Nikita Ivanovich Panin
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. ~Jim Fiebig
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities. ~E.B. White
The years teach much which the days never knew. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~Mark Twain
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. ~John Mortimer
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. ~Maurice Chevalier
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~Charles Dickens
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. ~Author Unknown
A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. ~Robert Southey
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~John Barrymore
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? ~Satchel Paige
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. ~Muriel Spark
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. ~Charles Dickens
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. ~Caryn Leschen
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ~Victor Hugo
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net. ~Franklin Adams
Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Guatemalan Proverb
There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt. ~Author Unknown
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going. ~J.B. Priestly
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
Age is a high price to pay for maturity. ~Tom Stoppard
By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. ~Author Unknown
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse. ~Author Unknown
The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~Judith Regan
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. ~Mark Twain
It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. ~Brigitte Bardot
It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes. ~Robert Brault
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. ~Voltaire
There's no such thing as too late. That's why they invented death. ~From the movie Out to Sea
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.
~Edmund Waller
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ~Doris Lessing
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum
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There are many good quotes among those you listed, but I especially like this one:
Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That is how I feel.
Originally posted by lolofThanks. Glad you're enjoying them. Found them quite by accident in "Quote Garden" and that site has many more. Last one I thought was perfect for Audrey...
There are many good quotes among those you listed, but I especially like this one:
Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That is how I feel.