This morning as I read through my “Notes of Note” (binders containing various things I’ve copied down over the years) I found some quips that made me smile. Why I wrote these down as “Notes of Note” and where they came from, I have no idea. Will Rogers said, “I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.” So I guess there is some truth about me in the following. Why would I smile if there were not?
You are getting old when you don’t care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don’t have to go along.
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun—and fun is a lot more work!
Statistics show that at the age of seventy, there are five women to every man. Isn’t that the darnedest time for a guy to get those odds?
By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
You know you are getting old when you realize that caution is the only thing you care to exercise.
The aging process could be slowed down if it had to work its way through Congress.
Doctor to patient: I have good news and bad news—the good news is that you are not a hypochondriac.
You are getting old when you wake up with that “morning after feeling,” and you didn’t do anything the night before.
I’m grateful for Mark Twain, Will Rogers, Dr. Seuss, and a host of others who can still make me smile. Mark Twain puts it this way: “So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or national monopoly. It’s as free as salvation, and I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them…without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant.”
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| Ethan & Eleni--2011 Smiling! |
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