Christin's Quote Book

• Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.  ~Jim Fiebig
• 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 
• Do not regret growing older.  It is a privilege denied to many.  ~Author Unknown 
• 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
• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.  ~Victor Hugo 
• 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
• We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse.  ~Author Unknown
• Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
• You can't hide your true colors as you approach the autumn of your life.  ~Author Unknown
• I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.  ~Dave Barry
• Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.  ~Quoted by Francis Bacon, Apothegm 
• First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.  ~Leo Rosenberg 
• The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest.  You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.  ~T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950
• Life is one long process of getting tired.  ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks 
• Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.  ~Attributed to John Wagner
• A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.  ~Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.
• I don't do alcohol anymore - I get the same effect just standing up fast.  ~Author Unknown 
• Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.  ~Author Unknown
• Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.  Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  ~Tom Wilson
• Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up.  ~Author Unknown 
• Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.  ~Jennifer Yane
• Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever - but would rather not.  ~Author Unknown
• In dog years, I'm dead.  ~Author Unknown
• Middle age:  The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.  ~Robert Quillen
• Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.  ~Author Unknown
• Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.  Middle age is when you're forced to.  ~Bill Vaughn
• True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.  ~Kurt Vonnegut
• At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive.  At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive.  At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive.  Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?  ~Jules Feiffer