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Is there something you can do about it? You’re darned right there is! You can fight back. Mister Old Age is not going to get you, by golly! All you need is a little determination — a willingness to get out of that reclining lounge chair, climb into that sweatsuit, lace on those running shoes, stride out that front door, and hurl yourself in front of that municipal bus.
No, wait. Sorry. For a moment there I got carried away by the bleakness of it all. Forget what I said. Really. There is absolutely no need to become suicidally depressed about the fact that every organ in your body is headed straight down the toilet.

Dave Barry (b. 1947) American humorist, author, columnist
Dave Barry Turns 40, ch. 2 “Your Disintegrating Body” (1990)

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Barry, Dave - Dave Barry Turns 40, ch. 2 "Your Disintegrating Body" (1990) | WIST Quotations

Is there something you can do about it? You're darned right there is! You can fight back. Mister Old Age is not going to get you, by golly! All you need is a little determination -- a willingness to get out of that reclining lounge chair, climb into that sweatsuit,…

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Janne Moren Mar 17

Annoying: you're 16 and your mom says "Stop slouching. You'll damage your back".

More annoying: you're 56 and your doctor says "You've damaged your back with that slouching. Didn't your mom tell you?"

OK, so he didn't actually mention my mother. He just thought it very loudly.

And yes, stop slouching. It really isn't good for you.

#medicine #growingold

officerripley Mar 13

#aging #elderly #growingold

From my personal experience, do not grow old in a rural or suburban area. Just don't.

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Dualtronic Mar 10

Me: "why is this damn #code so hard to write with the prototype in front of me?!"

Also me: "oh right, I'm playing the game on hard mode again."

That, and #growingOld isn't helping matters.

Chuff² Mar 7

I think I'm going to take tomorrow off and have a three day weekend. My feet hurt, my knee hurts, and its been a long week. Goal is $700 with a minimum of $500, and we're at $542 for this week, last week we made $809, so we can definitely afford it.
Oh and to make things interesting, this weekend my credit union will be down, some services will be available, but they're making major changes to the computer systems, frankly if'n I understand what they're doing it, they've been needed. It shouldn't cause me any real problems other than likely not having things credited or debited from my account until Tues, assuming it all goes well.

#••Life #Life #Growing-Old #Work #Rest

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A quotation from Thomas Bailey Aldrich

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasbaileyaldrich #aging #gettingold #growingold #lifespan #reversetime #youth

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey - "Leaves from a Notebook," Ponkapog Papers (1903) | WIST Quotations

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?

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A quotation from Horace

Years foll’wing Years, steal something ev’ry day,
At last they steal us from our selves away;
In one our Frolicks, one Amusements end,
In one a Mistress drops, in one a Friend:
This subtle Thief of Life, this paltry Time,
What will it leave me, if it snatch my Rhime?

[Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
eripuere iocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum;
tendunt extorquere poemata: quid faciam vis?]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 2 “To Julius Florus,” l. 55ff (2.2.55-57) (14 BC) [tr. Pope (1737)]

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Horace - Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 2 "To Julius Florus," l. 55ff (2.2.55-57) (14 BC) [tr. Alexander Pope (1737)] | WIST Quotations

Years foll'wing Years, steal something ev'ry day, At last they steal us from our selves away; In one our Frolicks, one Amusements end, In one a Mistress drops, in one a Friend: This subtle Thief of Life, this paltry Time, What will it leave me, if it snatch my Rhime?…

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