By Jim Ingebrigtsen
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain
“To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” – Oscar Wilde
“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
“Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up.”
- John Wagner
“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
“Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.” – Jennifer Yane
“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings, and you hope it isn’t for you.” – Ogden Nash
“It’s important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle.” – 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
“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it.” – Golda Meir
“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’m at that age where my back goes out more than I do.”
– Phyllis Diller
“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
“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
“Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old, it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother that does.” – J. Norman Collie
“You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.” – Joel Plaskett
“At my age ‘getting lucky’ means walking into a room and remembering what I came in for.” – Unknown
“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
“I feel very young. At age 80 I had to learn to hold a spoon and walk upright again” – Ian Teuty
“People ask me what I’d most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.” – George Burns
Jim was a writer-broadcaster, producer and presenter on television and radio for 40 years. He is also a podcast host on Lifestyles 55 Digital Radio. Find Radio Redux and Mid-Century Memories at www.whatsupwinnipeg.ca
