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

Tag: death religion getting-older



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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. Coetzee

Tag: old-age getting-older discgrace



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Getting older makes you no wiser,
but number of lessons that learned.

Toba Beta

Tag: getting-older no-wiser number-of-learned-lessons



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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 Maguire

Tag: time getting-older



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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 Gruenenfelder

Tag: fulfillment getting-older life-goals p164



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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 Egan

Tag: death aging wasting-time getting-old getting-older



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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 Perry

Tag: getting-older thong



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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 Dunsany

Tag: age experience youth getting-older



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The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

Núria Añó

Tag: 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



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When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

Michelle Shocked

Tag: aging getting-old getting-older old-woman michelle-shocked



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