A Tribute to Seniors   (Advance June 23, 2002)    

June is celebrated as Senior’s Month, not only in Ontario, but in most of the provinces.  This is an appropriate time to celebrate agism and to pay tribute to the more than three million Canadians over 65.  Here is some sage advice and perspectives on life from seniors.

 No wise man ever wished to be younger.  Jonathan Swift

You want to be able to do your own thing, whatever that may be.  A Canadian Senior

Just by being independent, I think seniors feel healthier.  A Canadian Senior

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.  May Lamberton Becker

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.  C. S. Lewis

You cannot create experience, you must undergo it.  Albert Camus

Keep busy...be a volunteer...take care of other people.  You have to live day to day, one day at a time.  A Canadian Senior

You don’t have to answer to anybody.  A Canadian Senior

Grow old with me!  The best is yet to be.  Robert Browning

Life is what you make it.  A Canadian Senior

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.  Henri Frederic Amiel

You don’t feel old, you feel the same inside.  I still think I’m thirty.  A Canadian Senior

No Spring, nor Summer beauty hath such grace, as I have seen in one Autumnal face.  John Donne

It takes a long time to become young.  Pablo Picasso

I don’t have time to do all the things I want to do.  A Canadian Senior

Life is more delightful when it is on the downward slope.  Seneca

(Adapted from Seniors Info Exchange Summer 1992)

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