{"id":479,"date":"2026-09-07T21:40:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shadetreeokie.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2026-09-11T05:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:32:09","slug":"for-the-jokes-quotes-junkie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadetreeokie.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"For The Jokes & Quote’s Junkie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Posted Randomly – Not In Any Particular Order<\/strong> – <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all you Jokes and Quotes addicts the STO enjoyed these and I think you will to!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COOL QUOTES ON OLD AGE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age: first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old age is fifteen years older than I am. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being an old maid is like death by drowning — a really delightful sensation after you have ceased struggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young — or slender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Age is an issue of mind over matter.  If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.  ~Mark Twain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~Chili Davis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.  ~Nikita Ivanovich Panin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do not regret growing older.  It is a privilege denied to many.  ~Author Unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I’m sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don’t hurt.  ~Author Unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.  ~Judith Regan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.  ~Herbert Asquith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old age ain’t no place for sissies.  ~Bette Davis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.” Jody Foster<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.”– Judith Martin <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.”        — Lewis Carroll<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Now is the time for all good men to come to.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.” 
       — Bertrand Russell<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”  — Thomas A. Edison<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” — Mark Twain<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n