Good Morning Friends & Digital Neighbors! Happy Friday!
Working our way through Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts and Funny Sayings! How about paying a visit to quotes about aging? There are many "olds" among us, and I am happy to be advancing in that age group. Many of my favorite people are significantly older than myself. I have never made a big deal of age once one begins acting like a competent adult. I know both competency and maturity are not static states or attitudes, we can all regress at times because of various factors. What I enjoy most about my senior friends is the connection to a time I never experienced, they help me continue to remember the stories and experiences of my parents and their generation.
With a brother 20 years my senior, you have to be getting into your 80's to be considered a difference generation than myself. I'm sure I will eventually make my way to youth, but that is at the end of book and we are only in the letter A and I suspect next week I will look at a difference book of quotes or sayings. Off to the quotes! Hopefully they won't pinch any of us "olds" too much and offer either perspective or a laugh. Also - BARN! (Not sure where it it from or who took the original photo.)
There are so few who can grow old with good grace. - Richard Steele
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. - George Santayana
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Oliver Wendell Homes Jr. (I was early 40s when a child of a couple meeting me for marriage prep called me PaPa. "He thinks you are Grandpa, Fr. Tom." It was both a shock and a chuckle.)
Have a great weekend my friends, young, old and all in between!
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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Re-read it while traveling this week
Definitely worth the time/effort
https://www.amazon.com/Screwtape-Letters-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060652934/ref=sr_1_1?crid=110HP1IAHNL3
