Top Items About Aging
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Trivia | Elderly Accomplishments | Cervantes completed Don Quixote when he was nearly 70 years old. Goethe finished Faust when he was 82. Verdi... | root | 263 | |
| Anecdotes | Milton Berle, crotchety old man | Milton Berle was once sued for allegedly ruining a thirty-three-year-old hotel employee`s sex life. According to a bellman... | root | 92 | |
| Anecdotes | Black Humor | An enthusiastic tennis player, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black was dismayed one day to have his doctor tell him that... | Anonymous | 59 | |
| Quotes | Norman Mailer on aging and memory | "It’s awful... I keep referring to one metaphor: an old man who’s still steering a course is analogous to the captain of... | root | 59 | |
| Anecdotes | 2 x 2 | A. E. Housman`s rooms at Trinity College, Cambridge (in an area known as Whewell`s Court) were reached by climbing... | Anonymous | 57 | |
| Quotes | Quote about Self-Deprecation, Aging and Mornings | `I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it,... | Anonymous | 57 | |
| Anecdotes | Old Joke | A reporter in search of information once wired Cary Grant`s agent: "HOW OLD CARY GRANT?" Grant, having happened upon... | Anonymous | 55 | |
| Anecdotes | Charles Wick: so old.. | On the evening before Reagan`s state funeral in 2004, Dominic Dunne asked Charles Wick - former director of the USIA... | root | 55 | |
| Quotes | Quote about Aging, Immaturity and Senility | `What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.` - Dave... | Anonymous | 50 | |
| Anecdotes | 20 / 20 Vision? | At a state banquet one day, Mrs. Sargent Shriver, the wife of the US ambassador to France, found herself seated beside... | Anonymous | 49 |
