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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

[Vieillir n’est qu’une mauvaise habitude; l’homme occupé n’a pas le temps de la prendre.]

André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
The Art of Living [Un Art de Vivre], ch. 8 “The Art of Growing Old” (1939) [tr. Whitall (1940)]

More about this quote: wist.info/maurois-andre/66030/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #andremaurois #aging #badhabit #busyness #gettingold #growingold #keepingbusy #living #oldage

Maurois, Andre - The Art of Living [Un Art de Vivre], ch. 8 "The Art of Growing Old" (1939) [tr. Whitall (1940)] | WIST Quotations

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. [Vieillir n’est qu’une mauvaise habitude; l’homme occupé n’a pas le temps de la prendre.] (Source (French))

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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar 2d ago

My aging dad who lives in a far away country: "How long can I keep using Windows 10? Can you install Linux remotely? Will it look different?"

😱

Suggested he drag his creaky old ass here while there's still a bit of jet fuel left and I give him a prepared Linux Laptop to take home instead of his old tower PC sitting under an old desk.

Undoubtedly he'll then complain it doesn't have MS Works on it 😩

Why did Windows have to get so thoroughly enshittified that even my dad, a lifelong Windows user, knows, without my doing, that it is better to switch to Linux than suffer Windows 11.

#OldAge #Parents #Linux #Windows

Mr Don a mediocre man 3d ago

https://youtu.be/9sOrgEvQ93g?si=ZUG2U9uPWqaRg2un

They art of being positive, this guy is so right. I am 66 and I put stuff off. Today this stop, think positive, ACT. DO

#life #oldage #old #health #mentalhealth

I'm 65. Stop Going Soft After 60 With This One Rule

YouTube

AnneTheWriter 4d ago

Bonus #DadJoke
Q: Why don't bears wear hiking boots?
A: They prefer to go bear-foot.

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #DadJokes #Hiking #HikingTrails #Hikers #Regrets #OldAge #Bears #BearsOfMastodon

David Cantrell 🏏5d ago

Well fuck, I've started getting junk mail advertising life insurance, will writing, and funeral plans.

#OldAge

Axel Rafn 5d ago

Just did some calculations and realizations..

#Metallica the band, is 55 years old this year, not the members, the BAND ITSELF.

#Music #Age #OldAge #ImGettingOld

My Shetland May 9

https://myshetland.co.uk/bloody-winter-again/

Winter - the gift that just keeps on giving (ffs).

#myshetland #shetland #shetlandislands #shetlandpony #icelandichorse #horsewareireland #winter #HorseRugs #oldage

My Shetland May 6

https://myshetland.co.uk/rug-indecision/

Rugs on? Rugs off? Rugs on? I just don't know and sleet this morning.

#myshetland #weather #weatherchange #shetlandislands #shetland #shetlandpony #icelandichorse #oldage #shetlandsheep

Centre for Population Change May 5

'Rather than trying to “fix” falling #birthrates, #policymakers should prepare for an #older #population – from rethinking how #oldage support is funded, to enabling people to remain in #work for longer. “Simply telling people to have more #babies is unlikely to work,” said CPC-CG member Dr Bernice Kuang' (Department of #SocialStatistics and #Demography at the University of #Southampton), who spoke with #TheGuardian last week about the latest #ONS #PopulationProjections.