Hank Aaron was one of the greatest baseball players of all time, however Golf was not his bag ( sorry, bad-pun alert lol ).
Hank Aaron: " It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the Golf-course ".
Chess for Oldtimers --- Good Idea !
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Jul 31, 2015
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A cute item that I found recently: " You're 65 today - and it's the first day of the rest of your life savings. "
Aug 8, 2015
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#1404
A thought on finances from the one and only Henny Youngman: " I've got all the money I'll ever need if I die by four o'clock this afternoon. "
Aug 14, 2015
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The time has come to correct a serious oversight in this thread as we have not quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson yet. However Waldo once said: " Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time ." ( any questions ? lol ).
Aug 16, 2015
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cabadenwurt wrote:
The time has come to correct a serious oversight in this thread as we have not quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson yet. However Waldo once said: " Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time ." ( any questions ? lol ).
Excellent! I'd never thought of Emerson as a sardonic wit. I'd always just pictured him sitting around by a pond. Or on a pond. A golden one, think. Really, all I seem to remember about him was that he liked nature and stuff. Did he say any other cool things? 
Chess helps be strategic and always think ahead. I always ask myself while playing "If I make this move, what are the possibilities of my opponent and what can I do about it, by thinking of my move after that"
Aug 17, 2015
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motherinlaw wrote:
cabadenwurt wrote:
The time has come to correct a serious oversight in this thread as we have not quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson yet. However Waldo once said: " Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time ." ( any questions ? lol ).
Excellent! I'd never thought of Emerson as a sardonic wit. I'd always just pictured him sitting around by a pond. Or on a pond. A golden one, think. Really, all I seem to remember about him was that he liked nature and stuff. Did he say any other cool things?
--- Thanks for the new posts.
Motherinlaw: I did find another one that I ike written by him " Old age brings along with it's ugliness the comfort that you soon will be out of it - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are. "
Aug 17, 2015
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regaloutlets wrote:
Chess helps be strategic and always think ahead. I always ask myself while playing "If I make this move, what are the possibilities of my opponent and what can I do about it, by thinking of my move after that"
--- Regaloutlets: Yes sounds good and for old farts like me it is a good exercise for the brain.
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." --Margaret Mead
Aug 19, 2015
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17rileyc wrote:
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." --Margaret Mead
--- Thanks for the nice quote 17rileyc.
Aug 20, 2015
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#1412
I'm not sure if I ever posted anything by Mark Twain so here goes: " Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint. "
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."--Elbert Hubbard
I may be old, but I got to see all the cool bands.
Seen on a T-shirt.
Regards,
Lou
"Life is to short for "drama" over little things and reality TV."---me
Aug 22, 2015
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Emerson's description of humans as "discontented pendulums" -- lovely!
Emerson's fellow Transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau, wrote: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Roger Waters later took some of this quote for lyrics on the song "Time," from the album Dark Side of the Moon.
Sad song, sad quotes. Just MHO.
Regards,
Lou
Aug 22, 2015
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motherinlaw wrote:
Emerson's description of humans as "discontented pendulums" -- lovely!
--- Thanks for all of the nice new posts.
Motherinlaw: Yes that was quite the quote from his writings.
Aug 28, 2015
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Time for another item ( this one is a bit racy - Oh Oh ! ).
A ninety-year-old man went to see his doctor and said, " Doctor, my wife - who is eighteen - is expecting a baby. "
The doctor said, " Let me tell you a story. A man went hunting, but instead of his gun, he picked up an umbrella by mistake. And when a bear suddenly charged at him he pointed his umbrella at the bear, shot, and killed it on the spot. "
Old man, " Impossible. Someone else must have shot that bear. "
Doctor, " Exactly my point. "
You never know who will provide an interesting quote. For example this one from Geraldine Ferraro: " It was not so long ago that people thought semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very very small snack foods ".