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Senior Citizens

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Age before beauty.
Age does not determine who's right, it only determines who's left!
Age is a matter of mind and if you don't mind it don't matter !!
Age is a number, old is in your head.
Age is a number, and mine is unlisted.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Age is like fine wine.... it gets better with time !!
Age isn't important unless you're cheese.
As you grow older, you stand for more and fall for less.
At my age...I've got achy, breaky everything !!
At my age...I've seen it all...I've heard it all...I've done it all....I just can't remember it all...
Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Better to have bad breath than no breath at all !!
Born in the USA.....a long time ago !!
By the time you reach middle age, you've already met so many people that every new acquaintance reminds you of someone else.
Classic, Genuine, Antique Person...They just don't make 'em like this anymore!!
Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.
Do not regret growing old....it is a privilege denied many...!
Don't let an old person crawl into your body !
Enjoy getting older, the alternative is death
Ever stop to think...And forget to start again?
Few people know how to be old.
50 is the age of discovery....you discover you're old!!!
50 year old--one owner Needs parts, make offer
~~~ 50 ~~~
That's dead in dog years !!
First, I was a good BOY, Then, I became a nice KID, I was then a great GUY, Later, I grew up to be a fine MAN, Now, I'm just an old FART !!
Forty is the old age of youth; Fifty is the youth of old age.
Forty isn't old...IF you're a tree !!
I am not young enough to know everything !!!
I am old enough to sleep by myself and young enough not to want to have to.
I just let my mind wander, and it didn't come back...
I'd rather be over the hill than under it.
~~~ 40 ~~~
If life begins at 40....What ended at 39 ???
I'm entering the "metallic years"...silver in my hair, gold in my teeth and lead in my bottom !!
I'm just a 16 year old girl, locked in an old ladies body !
I'm not aging, I just need repotted.
I'm not aging....I'm marinating !!
I'm not as old as I used to be.
I'm not getting older, I'm getting bitter.
I'm not old....I'm a recycled teenager !!
I'm not old...I've just been young a very long time !!
I'm 39 1/2...(and that's my final answer !)
Inside every older person is a young person wondering what the hell happened !
It used to be wine, women and song...now it's beer, the old lady and TV !!
It's easier to get older than it is to get wiser...
It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
I've got a good memory....but it's short !!
Middle age is when the kids leave one by one...only to return...two by two!!
Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber.....not the toy !!!
Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin changing places.
My mind wanders a lot but fortunately it's too weak to go very far.
Of all the things I've lost...I miss my mind the most !
Old age comes at a bad time.
Once you're over the hill....you pick up speed !
Over 40 and still cookin'...!!
Over the Hill...pickin' up speed !!
Please understand that no matter how old I get... I will always be a kid at heart...
Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it !!
Serenity Prayer….
God grant me the serenity to forget the people I never liked anyway...the good fortune to run into the ones that I do...and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Sex after 60 is like shooting pool with a rope.
Some people, not matter how old they get, never lose their beauty...they merely move it from their faces to their hearts.
The best part about waking up is finding your teeth are still in the cup!
The hardest part of growing older is remembering when you were young.
The heart is the real fountain of youth.
The heart that gives love....is always young !!
The older I get, the better I used to be.
The older I get, the better I was.
We do not stop laughing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop laughing.
We don't have crow's feet....We have laugh lines !!
We're all getting older at the same rate of speed. We just got started at different times.
When did my wild oats....turn into shredded wheat??
When you stop to think, don't stay parked !!
Why should I grow up??....this is more fun !!
Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up !!
Wrinkles are antique smiles...!
You can only be young once but you can be immature forever !!
You know you are getting old when everything hurts and what doesn't hurt doesn't work...!
You know you are getting old when..."Happy Hour" turns out to be a nap !!
You know you're getting old when it takes you all night, to do what you used to do all night !!
You know you're getting old when you sink your teeth into an apple nd they stay there..!!
You know you're getting old....when your back goes out more often than you do !!!
You know you're old when you can't get your rocking chair started..!
You know you are getting old when it feels like the morning after and you haven't been anywhere.
You know you are getting old when you look forward to a DULL evening.
You know you are getting old when the best part of the day is over when the alarm goes off.
You know you are getting old when the little old gray-haired lady you helped across the street is your wife.
You know you are getting old when you get winded playing chess.
You know you are getting old when you go into the next room to get something, and can't remember what you came for.
You know you are getting old when you have too much room in the house and not enough in the medicine cabinet.
You know you are getting old when you know all the right answers but no one asks the right questions.
You know you are getting old when you look into the mirror and are shocked to see that "old person" looking back at you.
You know you are getting old when the gleam in your eyes is from the sun hitting your bifocals.
You know you are getting old when you move your bed closer to the bathroom because you spend half your night there anyway.
You know you are getting old when you tend to repeat yourself...tend to repeat yourself.
You know you are getting old when your children begin to look middle-aged.
You know you are getting old when your friends don't ask how you fell but where you hurt.
You know you are getting old when your pacemaker opens the garage door when you see a pretty girl.
You know you are getting old when your knees buckle and your belt won't.
You know you are getting old when your little black book contains only names ending in M.D.
You know you are old when your doctor is the same age as your grandson.
You know your old when your youngest starts collecting Social Security !!
You know you're gettin' old when you're not as good as you once was but....your as good once...as you once was.
You may not be able to turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again !
Young at heart, slightly older in other places !!
You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.
You're never too old to enjoy your childhood.
You're not old...you're chronologically gifted...!!
You're only young once but you can be immature forever !!
Youth is a gift of nature. Middle Age is a work of art !!
Youth is wasted on the YOUNG !!
39.9999999999 and still holding !!
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