Quotes for Our Age

“As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.” Sir Norman Wisdom

“I have successfully completed the thirty-year transition from wanting to stay up late to just wanting to go to bed.” Unknown 

“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. Eliot

“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.” Ann Landers

“When I was young, I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties, I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then, and I’m labelled senile.” George Burns

Contributed by Jane Hart and Steve Price

To be continued . . .