THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, November 2, 1996 TAG: 9611010149
SECTION: DAILY BREAK PAGE: E1 EDITION: FINAL
SERIES: Rites of Passion
A celebration of life, from birth to old age, in words and pictures,
in seven parts
Sixth in a Series
SOURCE: Compiled by Diane Tennant
LENGTH: 60 lines
The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
- T.S. Eliot, author
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
- Tom Lehrer, songwriter
We do not necessarily improve with age; for better or worse we become more like ourselves.
- Peter Hall, British theater director
For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist. And this is the prospect not only for the one out of every 10 Americans now over 65. . . but also for the 65 million who will reach retirement age within the next 33 years.
- Sylvia Porter, author
Our old people's citizenship is not served when we take ourselves out of the mainstream of society and consign ourselves to a life of play. . . Arbitrary retirement at a fixed age ought to be negotiated and decided according to the wishes of the people involved. Mandatory retirement ought to be illegal.
- Margaret E. Kuhn, founder of the Gray Panthers
You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.
- Ronald Reagan, former president
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
- Horace, Roman poet/satirist
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick, American clergyman ILLUSTRATION: Photos by Huy Nguyen/The Virginian-Pilot
A New Challenge
A Job Well Done
Labor of Love
Keeping Fit
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