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 CarlinStichwörter: death religion getting-older
His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough"(72).
J.M. CoetzeeStichwörter: old-age getting-older discgrace
Getting older makes you no wiser,
but number of lessons that learned.
Stichwörter: getting-older no-wiser number-of-learned-lessons
Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.
Gregory MaguireStichwörter: time getting-older
There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be fluent in Spanish. Or go on that African safari you've read about since you were a kid. Or be as excited as you used to be about catching fireflies. I keep trying to find my answer to life - and it gets more elusive the older I get.
Kim GruenenfelderStichwörter: fulfillment getting-older life-goals p164
So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.
Jennifer EganStichwörter: death aging wasting-time getting-old getting-older
I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I've been looking for it but ain't seen it since.
Tyler PerryStichwörter: getting-older thong
I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.
Lord DunsanyStichwörter: age experience youth getting-older
The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
Núria AñóStichwörter: humor life age work living old-age aging-gracefully ageing aging economy middle-age mathematics jobs works growing-old job inevitability old-people worker workers working-class getting-older irony-of-life retired old-aged retiring nuria-ano
When I grow up I want to be an old woman.
Michelle ShockedStichwörter: aging getting-old getting-older old-woman michelle-shocked
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