The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence.

First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.

Remember when we all wanted to look like Elizabeth Taylor? Well, now I do.

"The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things and yet are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

A U.S. Forest Service researcher announced in August that her team had discovered the largest living thing ever found, a 24-centuries-old fungus, covering 2,200 acres in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon; DNA testing confirmed that the underground, stringlike structure was all the same organism.

A young preacher and an older preacher go to breakfast with an 89-year-old long-time member. The young whippersnapper finally says "89? Wow. I don't know if I want to live to be 89!" The old man immediately replied with great wisdom: "You will when you're 88."

"There’s no peer pressure." -- Unknown, Woman’s response to being asked about the benefits of turning 102.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does." -- Lewis B. Hershey

I never read in the Bible where God retired anybody.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward, we must believe in age. By: Dorothy Sayers Source: Creed or Chaos, Sophia Press, 1949, 1974, pg. 57

King David and King Solomon Led merry, merry lives, With many, many lady friends, And many, many wives; But when old age crept over them – With many, many qualms! – King Solomon wrote the Proverbs And King David wrote the Psalms.

Your College Years Are Not The Best Years Of Your Life

<i>On the occasion of his fiftieth birthday, Dilbert creator Scott Adams wrote:</i> When I was 20, I wondered what it would be like to be 50. None of my guesses were close. I assumed that "aging" was automatically bad, so I didn't look forward to it. No one told me that having more friends and fewer zits would feel like a good tradeoff. And if you told me I could have my twenty-year old body again, but I had to take my twenty-year old brain with it, I'd pass.