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 THINKING ABOUT QUOTATIONS
"Quotations are spoken or written words deemed cogent enough or insightful or humorous enough to be remembered, at least for a while."
By: me (2001)
Seriously though, I find a quotation on a given subject to be a guidepost or perhaps a warning of what's ahead. It can inflame, comfort or instruct. Some are just darn right funny, stupid, or tongue in cheek. There is a famous quote by someone to fill any of our needs. I don't consider myself old just yet, (we never do, do we?) but neither am I young, and I seem to be more than a little unsettled about this years birthday, which will be my sixty-fourth. I think maybe it is the last year, before I hit the one time official age that denoted the age we stopped working, sat in a rocking chair and faded away. This is not true these days, but it is ingrained in my mind anyway. So I went to those who have pondered the subject of age and aging for erudition and maybe a little comfort. The first quote is one of my favorites and not about age or aging at all, but by a former politician. The reason I like it, I think, is because a person trained to use his tongue, as only politicians are able, will sometimes be unable to control what comes out. It gives me comfort because I speak that way most of the time. The quote is as follows:
I didn't say that I didn't say it. I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want to make that very clear.
George Romney
To quote from memory a very famous person known as bumper sticker: "Getting old is not for sissies." But there are other more serious minded people who have contributed their thoughts.
"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth." - W. Somerset Maugham
"The worst old age is that of the mind." - William Hazlitt
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz
…..and on that very true quotation, I rest my case for now.
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