"Getting Older"

 

Photo by Lonnie Lania, W. Virginia

From Mad Florida Memes

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 My son sent me the following post back in August; no attribution. But I carefully saved it, knowing it was a perfect gem for my blog. As I frequently tell acquaintances:  "Never get old!"

 

Comments on "getting older" from

well-known names of the past

"The older I get, the better I was"! JM

"If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in-law."  (Eva Gabor)

"Old age comes at a bad time." (Ed Sullivan)
 
"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm.  Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it."  (Golda Meir)
 
"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up; then, you forget to pull your zipper down."  (Rob Reiner)
 
"Old people shouldn't eat healthy foods.  They need all the preservatives they can get."  (Bob Hope)
 
"At my age, flowers scare me."  (George Burns)
 
"It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit."  (Ed Sullivan)
 
"The years between 55 and 75 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."  (Milton Berle)
 
"The important thing to remember is that I'm probably going to forget."  (Martin Scorsese)
 
"We don't grow older, we grow riper."  (Pablo Picasso)
 
"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)
 
"The older I get, the better I used to be."  (Lee Trevino)
 
"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they're cramming for their final exam."  (George Carlin)
 
"Everything seems to slow down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips."  (Elizabeth Taylor)
 
"You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks."  (Dennis Quaid)
 
"Looking fifty is great — if you're sixty."  (Joan Rivers)
 
"Time may be a great Healer, but it's a lousy Beautician."*


*Grace note: Sorry, no attribution for the last one. 

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 Featured Book of the Week - THE ART OF EVIL

 I worked for many years as a volunteer tram driver (one afternoon a week) on the 66 acres of The Ringling Museum in Sarasota. One of the joys of my life. I also volunteered (in full costume) for the Medieval Fair held on the grounds for many years until new construction at the Ringling forced the fair to go elsewhere. The Art of Evil is set at the Ringling in the era before the new construction, describing the Ringling before the new Circus Museum, new restaurant, and additions to the Museum itself. Descriptions are authentic, including the "disappearance" of a statue the state evidently did not approve of. Even the meeting with the aerialist in the Ladies Room and her explanation of "Break a Leg" actually happened. 

If you are ever anywhere near Sarasota, Florida, DO NOT MISS The Ringling Museum.  

A bit dark, but that's a body hanging from one of the many banyan trees at the Ringling.

 Someone is killing people at the Bellman Museum, staging the deaths as bizarre works of art scattered over the museum's sixty-six tropical acres. FBI Special Agent Aurora "Rory" Travis, broken in body and spirit, shuns the world as a tram driver at the museum until a friend becomes a suspect in one of the deaths. Rory's self-appointed investigation is complicated by the appearance of a mystery man who hops onto her tram in the midst of a thunder storm and the arrival on site of a determined Sarasota PD detective. In the end, only one of the new men in her life is watching her back when Rory is forced to confront her worst fears as she goes one-on-one with the villain.

Review:

"This is an engaging Florida investigative thriller starring a likable cast to include eccentric seniors especially Aunt Hy, polar opposite sleuths with an in-common interest in Rory, and a terrific heroine struggling to regain her sea legs. . . ."
Harriet Klausner 

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