‘At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas’.

As I have mentioned far too often, my fifty-fifth birthday was this week, an event that inspired some to be really nice to me for a day or so … and for others to send biting comments about how darned old I am now.

Here are some quotes that came in an email that I’m sure was sent to make me smile. Okay … I did smile once or twice. Smile … grimace … comme si / comme ca and mox nix (same/same).

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

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~ Sir Norman Wisdom ~

I’m so old they’ve cancelled my blood type.
~ Bob Hope ~

When I was born I was so surprised I didn’t talk for a year and a half.
~ Gracie Allen ~

There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to be leglislation against it.
~ Patrick Moore ~

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
~ Lucille Ball ~

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
~ Don Marquis ~

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 labeled senile.
~ George Burns (Just you and me Kid, 1979) ~

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon…smart too late.
~ Mike Tyson ~

You know you’re getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.
~ John Mendoza ~

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don’t.
~ Carrie Fisher ~

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
~ Robert Quillen ~

People say that age is just a state of mind. I say it’s more about the state of your body.
~ Geoffrey Parfitt ~

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
~ George Burns ~

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ‘At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas’.
~ Claude D. Pepper ~

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
~ Agatha Christie ~

All diseases run into one, old age.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
~ Mark Twain ~

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