funny senior quotes for 2011

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it. ~Roseanne Barr



Kindness is the greatest wisdom. ~Author Unknown



A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. ~Ansel Adams



The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."



Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. ~George Bernard Shaw



Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong. ~Wilson Mizner



The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~Ralph Nader



Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. ~Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No. 79



You know it's time to diet when you push away from the table and the table moves. ~Quoted in The Cockle Bur



The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ~Ernest Dimnet



Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness. ~C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity



Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. ~Grantland Rice



If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out? ~John Godfrey Saxe



Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. ~Ray Bradbury



The question of common sense is always what is it good for? - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage. ~James Russell Lowell



Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. ~Leo Buscaglia



In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. ~Michel de Montaigne



A sister smiles when one tells one's stories - for she knows where the decoration has been added. ~Chris Montaigne



In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951