The Golden Years!

[vclavin]

Hubby and I have decided that the only thing "Golden" is the pocket books of the Doctors and Hospitals who have to treat our "Golden Age" aches and pains! LOL
Valerie

 

[bluegoose 1]

I agree with you 1000 per cent These golden years are lead
Bluegoose1

 

[VanC]

Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.
- Anonymous

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
- Gerald Brenan

There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
- Old saying

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent -that is to triumph over old age.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.
- Plato

How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.
- John Burroughs

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- Jonathan Swift

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.
- Hasidic saying

 

[vclavin]

Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.
- Anonymous

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
- Gerald Brenan

There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
- Old saying

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent -that is to triumph over old age.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.
- Plato

Thanks Van , your making these Golden Years easier to "live?" :lol2:
Valerie

How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.
- John Burroughs

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- Jonathan Swift

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.
- Hasidic saying

 

[VanC]

Thanks Van , your making these Golden Years easier to "live?" :lol2:
Valerie

There is a bright side to most anything. Even growing old. ;-)

 

[vclavin]

Thanks Van , your making these Golden Years easier to "live?" :lol2:
Valerie

There is a bright side to most anything. Even growing old. ;-)

I don't mind growing old, just the fact someone else is making the profit off it and it's not me :lol2:
Valerie

 

[pdfangus]

the only advantage to growing old..........
is most days it is a little better than the alternative.

 

[Fly-guy]

the only advantage to growing old..........
is most days it is a little better than the alternative.

The alternative is better - Luke 23:43!

 

[chrisy]

The thing about growing old is when I look in the mirror this old person keeps looking at me. :cry2:

 

[john250]

the only advantage to growing old..........
is most days it is a little better than the alternative.

Or, in the same spirit, "Any day above ground is a good day".