ISSUE: 212
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
POTPOURRI

On Aging


  • Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
    Confucius

  • I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
    Francis Bacon

  • Old age is a shipwreck.
    Charles de Gaulle

  • You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
    George Burns

  • Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
    Truman Capote

  • It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
    Brigitte Bardot

  • An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
    Agatha Christie

  • All diseases run into one, old age.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
    Voltaire

  • Age is an issue of mind over matter.
    If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
    Mark Twain

  • It takes a long time to become young.
    Pablo Picasso

  • Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
    George Bernard Shaw

  • Read also previous issue' articles:
    Bumper Stickers
    Things Found Only in America
    Devil in the Church
    Generosity Begins at Home
    Murphy's Other Laws
    Some Interesting Facts



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