Bette Davis was quoted as saying ‘old age is no place for sissies’. My mum is a member of ‘Growing Old Disgracefully’ www.growingolddisgracefully.org.uk and I think I am going to join up! Just avoiding the fact that I am getting older is not going to make it go away …so help is at hand. I was looking at their website today and was particularly cheered up by the whole list of great quotes about growing old. All by women (sorry fellas, you could be spurred on to start the mens’ wing called ‘G.O.D (of course he is a man!)’ Even though the organisation G.O.D. is for older women, I think we can all have a chuckle and a whymsical smile about the quotes below.
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. – Gloria Pitzer
‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. – Martha Graham
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. – Madeleine L’Engle
The time to begin most things is ten years ago. – Mignon McLaughlin
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. – Doris Lessing
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. – Anouk Aimee
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. – Jennifer Yane
Old age is no place for sissies. – Bette Davis
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use. – Ruth Gordon
Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. – Grace Hansen
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. – Katharine Hepburn
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. – Betty Smith
Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life. – Sophia Loren
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker
There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them. – Phyllis Bottome
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. – Faith Baldwin
To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything be more fun? – Katherine Graham
Being old isn’t som
ething to deny, hush up or apologise for. It’s something to celebrate. – Virginia Ironside
Growing old is a journey best undertaken with a sense of humour and curiosity. – Irma Kurtz
“Old” is not a dirty word. Old age is not an illness. It took a long time and a lot of hard work to get here and I see no reason to apologise for my arrival. – IrmaKurtz
You can’t turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again! – Bonnie Prudden
SONG OF THE DAY –I cannot believe it is day 81 of my post a day challenge and I still have not played any Fleetwood Mac. When I failed my A’levels ‘cos I was just having too much fun I went to India with my mum for 2 months. I took one cassette. It had Fleetwood Mac -Rumours on one side and do you know, for the life of me I cannot remember what was on the other side…and I had to listen to one side then the other, as rewinding and fast forward used up too much battery. So what ever was on the other side had to be listened to as much as Rumours, and I listened to it every day..all the way through….But it is Rumours that reminds me of that time. ‘Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow…yesterday’s gone…’ mmmm very apt. Nice link with the growing old disgracefully Gitika…pat on the back!
