Yes, you can still smile at the paradoxes of aging

Thanks to Sybil-Ann

“To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” – Oscar Wilde 
  
“The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.” – Will Rogers 
  
“Old age comes at a bad time.” – San Banducci “
  
“Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.” – Jennifer Yane
  
“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it.” – Golda Meir 
  
“I’m so old that my blood type is discontinued.” – Bill Dane 
  
“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened. – Mark Twain 
  
“Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes, age just shows up all by itself.” – Tom Wilson  
  
“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your retirement home.”- Phyllis Diller  
  
“I don’t plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.” – Rita Rudner  
  
“I’m at that age where my back goes out more than I do.” – Phyllis Diller 
  
“Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.” – George Burns 
  
“Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up.” – John Wagner 
  
“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 
  
“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.” – Kitty O’Neill Collins 
  
“Old people shouldn’t eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.” – Robert Orben 
  
“It’s important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle.” – Unknown 
  
“At my age, flowers scare me.” – George Burns 
  
“I have successfully completed the thirty-year transition from wanting to stay up late to just wanting to go to bed.” – Unknown 
  
“Nobody expects to trust his body much after the age of fifty.” – Alexander Hamilton 
  
“The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.” – T.S. Elliot 
  
“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us… at age 40, we don’t care what they think of us… at age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.” – Ann Landers 
  
“When I was young, I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties, I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then, and I’m labeled senile.” – George Burns 
  
“The important thing to remember is that I’m probably going to forget.” – Unknown 
  
“As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.” – Sir Norman Wisdom 
  
“It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.” – Andy Rooney  
  
“Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.” – Larry Lorenzon 
  
“The older I get, the better I used to be.” – Lee Trevino

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