{"id":4990,"date":"2022-09-26T13:17:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T17:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2022-09-26T13:17:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T17:17:57","slug":"as-we-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/as-we-age\/","title":{"rendered":"As We Age…"},"content":{"rendered":"

As We Age\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn\u2019t appeal to anyone.\u201d – Andy Rooney<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cThe older I get, the better I used to be.\u201d \u2013 Lee Trevino, Professional Golfer<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“Nice to be here? At my age it\u2019s nice to be anywhere.” \u2013George Burns<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened. – Mark Twain<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“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<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it.” –Golda Meir<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cOld people shouldn\u2019t eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.\u201d \u2013 Robert Orben.<\/u><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cYou spend 90 percent of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10 percent trying to convince the Lord that you\u2019re actually not that tired.\u201d \u2013 Robert Brault<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“At my age, flowers scare me.” – George Burns<\/u>.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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“The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.” – T.S. Elliot<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“The important thing to remember is that I\u2019m probably going to forget.” \u2013 Unknown<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us\u2026 at age 40, we don\u2019t care what they think of us\u2026 at age 60, we discover they haven\u2019t been thinking of us at all.” -Ann Landers<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me\u2014they\u2019re cramming for their final exam.”- George Carlin, Comedian<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.” – John Wagner<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“Grandchildren don\u2019t make a man feel old, it\u2019s the knowledge that he\u2019s married to a grandmother that does.” – J. Norman Collie<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it\u2019s a sure sign you\u2019re getting old.” – Mark Twain<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.” – Joel Plaskett<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“There\u2019s one advantage to being 102, there\u2019s no peer pressure.” – Dennis Wolfberg.<\/u><\/span><\/div>\n
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“There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus, he does not believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus.” – Bob Phillips<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“Looking fifty is great\u2014if you\u2019re sixty.” – Joan Rivers<\/u><\/span><\/div>\n
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“Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.” \u2013 Anonymous<\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As We Age\u2026\u2026\u2026.. \u201cIt\u2019s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn\u2019t appeal to anyone.\u201d – Andy Rooney.   \u201cThe older I get, the better I used to be.\u201d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38729],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-as-we-age"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}