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About Growing Old Gracefully

•   Growing older is mandatory; growing up is optional.
•   Insanity is my only means of relaxation.
•   Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.
•   You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.
•   Perhaps you know why women over fifty don't have babies: They would put them down somewhere and forget where they left them.
•   One of life's mysteries is how a two pound box of candy can make a person gain five pounds.
•   My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely. Every time I think about exercise, I lie down until the thought goes away.
•   God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind, I will live forever.
•   It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
•   I finally got my head together, and my body fell apart.
•   There cannot be a crisis this week; my schedule is already full.
•   Time may be a great healer, but it's also a lousy beautician.
•   The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.
•   Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
•   Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
•   Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.
•   I don't mind the rat race, but I could do with a little more cheese.
•   Amazing! You just hang something in your closet for a while, and it shrinks two sizes.
•   It is bad to suppress laughter; it goes back down and spreads to your hips.
•   Freedom of the press means no-iron clothes.
•   Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.
  
  
•   Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.

Thoughts on Aging

•   Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.
•   There are three signs of old age. The first is your loss of memory. I forget the other two.
•   You're getting old when you don't care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don't have to go along.
•   Middle age is when work is a lot less fun - and fun is a lot more work.
•   Statistics show that at the age of seventy, there are five women to every man. Isn't that a bad time for a guy to get those odds?
•   You know you're getting on in years when the girls at the office start confiding in you.
•   Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.
•   By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.
•   Middle age is when you have stopped growing at both ends, and have begun to grow in the middle.
•   A man has reached middle age when he is cautioned to slow down by his doctor instead of by the police.
•   You know you're into middle age when you realize that caution is the only thing you care to exercise.
•   The aging process could be slowed down if it had to work its way through Congress.
•   You're getting old when you're sitting in a rocker and you can't get it started.
•   You're getting old when you wake up with that morning-after feeling, and you didn't do anything the night before.
•   The cardiologist's diet: if it tastes good, spit it out.
•   Doctor to patient: I have good news and bad news: the good news is that you are not a hypochondriac.
•   It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
•   You know you're getting old when you stop buying green bananas.
•   Last Will and Testament: Being of sound mind, I spent all my money.
•   When you lean over to pick something up off the floor, you ask yourself if there is anything else you need to do while you are down there.
•   You find yourself in the middle of the stairway, and you can't remember if you were downstairs going up or upstairs going down

The Benefits of Growing Older

•   You can eat dinner at 4:00
•   Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.
•   Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
•   It's harder and harder for sexual harassment charges to stick.
•   People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
•   Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either.
•   Your supply of brain cells is finally down to a manageable size.
•   Your eyes won't get much worse.
•   Things you buy now won't wear out.
•   No one expects you to run into a burning building.
•   There's nothing left to learn the hard way.
•   Your joints are more accurate than the National Weather Service.
•   In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.
•   You can live without sex but not without glasses.
•   Your back goes out more than you do.
•   You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room.
•   You buy a compass for the dash of your car.
•   Your arms are too short to read the newspaper.
•   You sing along with the elevator music.
•   You constantly talk about the price of gasoline.
•   You enjoy hearing about other people's operations.
•   You consider coffee one of the most important things in life.
•   You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
•   People who call at 9 p.m. ask, "Did I wake you?"
•   You send money to PBS.
•   You can't remember the last time you laid on the floor to watch television.
•   Your ears are more hairy than your head.
•   You talk about "good grass" and you're referring to someone's lawn.
•   You get into a heated argument about pension plans.
•   You bought cable for the weather channel.
•   You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize it.

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