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Thread #110909   Message #2331734
Posted By: Ed T
02-May-08 - 10:20 PM
Thread Name: Why do we age-is there anything we can do about it
Subject: RE: Why do we age is there anything we c
Random quotes:

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian L. Fleming

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." - Aldous Huxley

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time." - Vince Lombardi

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov

"I'll sleep when I'm dead." - Warren Zevon

"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life

"Luck is the residue of design." - Branch Rickey

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
- Jean-Paul Sartre

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men." - Charles de Gaulle

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."- Aristotle Onassis

"The cynics are right nine times out of ten." - Henry Louis Mencken

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance." - Plato

"I don't feel good." - The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Woody Allen

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting."
- Karl Wallenda

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." - Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
- last words of Pancho Villa

I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the best I can do. All the trouble in the world is human trouble. Well, that's not true. But when cancer cells run amok and burst out of the prostate and take over the liver and lymph glands and end up killing everything in the body including themselves, they certainly are acting like some humans we know. PJ O'Rourke

"I would have made a good Pope." - Richard M. Nixon