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12-14-2020 11:01 PM
My dear grandmother would always say... back in the day.....
and ...handsome is as handsome does, I never figured that one out.
my grandfather always said, 'don't upset the apple cart'.
12-14-2020 11:37 PM
@mdgrammy My mother used to use that "handsome" statement.
I always interpreted it as meaning that a person could physically be handsome but that it was meaningless unless the actions of the person were equal to that attractiveness.
She and dad used the apple cart reference as well.
aroc3435
Washington, DC
12-15-2020 09:02 AM
I used to hear people say, He (or She) lived to a "ripe old age". I guess that means "ripe" (in this case) is a good thing!!
12-15-2020 09:16 AM
How about "getting up at the crack of dawn"?
I tend to say "for crying out loud" a lot when something irritates me or
"for Pete's sake!"
Nowadays, I think most people just curse.
12-15-2020 10:28 PM
This morning I got up at the "crack of dawn", rolled over and said hello to the "old ball and chain", check to see if the "cows came home" because it was "colder than a witches ******" outside.
Thankfully most of those sayings have "gone like the wind".
12-16-2020 03:23 AM
"Men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses".
"Pretty is as pretty does".
"If you believe that, how would you like to buy the Brooklyn bridge? "
12-16-2020 05:05 AM
@qualitygal Let's not make a Hollywood production out of this is another infrequently heard saying which used to be much more prevalent.
And then there is the one about the road to hell being paved with good intentions.
And the one about common sense is not so common.
aroc3435
Washington, DC
12-16-2020 12:33 PM
@aroc3435 wrote:@qualitygal. I don't hear people saying they are having a senior moment as much as the time before I became a senior.
I try to live by a quotation that my father used to refer to all the time from the poet Robert Browning's work entitled Rabbi Ben Ezra: "Grow old along with me the best is yet to be . . ."
The compensation for aging is having and seeking more wisdom, the leisure to explore and reflect more on life's mysteries.
The physical ailments inevitably come but as long as the mind is sound there can still be a richness and depth to life in the senior years to appreciate the past and examine it in the potential for inner growth that still exists for each of us.
Aging lends us perspective and wasting time on regrets of the past is foolish--learn to live in the current moments and continue to learn and grow.
aroc3435
Washington, DC
Beautifully stated, @aroc3435.
12-16-2020 12:55 PM
The "Golden Years" and ...
12-16-2020 01:28 PM
Been retired 19 years now and haven't worked a paid job since. To me that was when my "golden years" started. From then till 2020, I can't say they have all been "golden".
I can say even the "non golden" years beat the he!! out of the types of jobs I had been working the prior 33 years. Retiring young, at 52, was one of my smartest decisions.
Since late 2017 until today, I consider most of those months and years to be "golden", especially today, because I will be leaving to go to the ice rink in about and hour. To me, it doesn't get much more "golden" than that.
hckynut
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