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Saturday 20th of April 2024

Aging Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine. Joan Collins © 2023 Kwiple.com
Aging All but two were older than he, and though they assembled each week in a mood of comradely good cheer, the conversation invariably turned to matters of sickness and health, their personal biographies having by this time become identical with their medical biographies … At his studio, they more readily identified one another by their ailments than by thier painting. “How is your sugar?” “How is your pressure?” “What did the doctor say?” “Did you hear about my neighbor? It spread to the liver.” Philip Roth, Everyman  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Aging Arresting data point: in Japan, adult diapers now outsell baby diapers. Bill McKibben, New York Review of Books, October 6, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Aging As populations age, there are more and more people living alone with their television sets. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, January 20-21, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Aging Higher voting rates by older people make the ballot box a “time machine”: it reflects the US of a decade ago. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, February 27, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Aging The hollow horn plays wasted words Proves to warn That he not busy being born Is busy dying Bob Dylan, “It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Aging I hope to die before I get old. Pete Townshend, in “My Generation”  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Aging I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Aging In 2014 the US elected the oldest Congress in its history. The record did not last long: It was broken in 2016. And then again in 2018. And yet again in 2020, when — remarkably — the majority of the incumbents who lost their seats were replaced by someone even older. In the 2022 midterms, the House did become  slightly younger (the mean age of representa- tives dropped by a year, from fifty-nine to fifty-eight), but the mean age of senators continued to rise and is now over sixty-five. … The presidency is following the same trend. Fintan O'Toole, NY Rev. of Books, Jan. 18, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Aging In 2020 the share of people 65 or older reached  17 percent, according to the Census Bureau. By 2034, there will be more Americans past retirement age than there are children. … By 2053,  more than 40 percent of the federal budget will go toward programs for seniors, primarily Social Security and Medicare  — but those programs are not designed for or prepared to handle the new demographic reality. New York Times, October 6, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Aging It’s also true, of course, that younger politicians can suffer debilitating illnesses. … True, too, that older people with access to good health care can now lead productive public lives well past the ages at which their political forebears would have died or become incapable. But in other democracies where healthy  life spans are just as long as those in the US, the governing class is nonetheless much younger. Fintan O'Toole, New York Review of Books, January 18, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Aging It's not nice, but take comfort that you won't stay that way forever. J. P. Donleavy, on old age © 2017 Kwiple.com
Aging Japan already knows better than anyone how quickly 100-year lives can proliferate even as the general population shrinks. Fifty years ago Japan had just 327 centenarians; in 2017 it had 67,824, and the largest per capita ratio of them in the world. Financial Times, August 8, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Aging My God, he thought, the man I once was! The life that surrounded me! The force that was mine! No “otherness” to be felt anywhere! Once upon a time I was a full human being. Philip Roth, Everyman  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Aging Of course, I know that, every year, some people Simply get up and go Too far for you to see, much less drop in on, Less yet stay with.  I know ‘The past’ is a good name for what's all over; You can't, in fact, return To what isn't a place.  It does sound like an Easy lesson to learn. Kingsley Amis, “Bobby Bailey” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Aging Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. Philip Roth, Everyman  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Aging People talk about the aging management at Berkshire. I always assume they're talking about Charlie, when they say that. But I would like to point out that in three more years, Charlie will be aging at 1 per cent a year. No one is aging less than Charlie. Warren Buffett, 91-year-old chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, talking about Charlie Munger, its 97-year-old vice chairman, on Saturday, May 1, 2021  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Aging Pneumonia may well be called the friend of the aged. Taken off by it in an acute, short, not often painful illness, the old man escapes those “cold gradations of decay” so distressing to himself and to his friends. William Osler, The Principles and Practice of Medicine © 2018 Kwiple.com
Aging Right now, we live well, and then we don't live well, and then we die. The most that science seems to offer us is this: We'll live well, and then we'll die. Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, May 13, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Aging This will lighten your mood, Dick — every few minutes, a baby boomer turns fifty. One undertaker to another, in a September 6, 2004, New Yorker cartoon by Edward Koren © 2023 Kwiple.com
Aging This year, there will be more people over 65 than under five for the first time in human history. By 2060, the number of Americans over 65 will double, to 98m, while in Japan, 40% of the population will be 65 or older. There will not be enough younger people to look after so many, unless robots help (and probably an influx of migrants is permitted, too). Economist, February 16, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Aging We age by installments. Sándor Márai, Embers Trans. by Carol Brown Janeway © 2016 Kwiple.com
Aging We face the prospect of an army of centarians cared for by poorly paid immigrants. Seamus O'Mahony, The Way We Die Now © 2018 Kwiple.com
Aging Who wants to live to be a hundred? A guy who's ninety-nine. old joke © 2018 Kwiple.com
By the numbers According to the National Institute on Retirement Security, nearly 40m working households — 45 per cent of the total — had no retirement savings whatsoever in 2013, whether an employer-sponsored 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account (IRA). Financial Times, September 21, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Adults 35 to 49 were found to spend an average of 6 hours 58 minutes a week on social media networks, compared with 6 hours 19 minutes for the younger group [18 to 34]. More predictably, adults 50 and over spent significantly less time on the networks: an average of 4 hours 9 minutes a week. New York Times, January 30, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Portion of Americans aged 18 to 34 who live with their parents or other family members: 2/5 Harper's Index, March 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers The richest 1% of Americans can now expect to live up to 15 years longer than the poorest 1%. The Guardian, April 11, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk Then there is Jerome Rodale, founder of the publishing empire devoted to health. In 1971, Dick Cavett invited Mr. Rodale onto his TV show after reading a New York Times Magazine article that called him “the guru of the organic food cult.” Mr. Rodale, 72, took his chair next to Mr. Cavett, proclaimed that he would live to be 100, and then made a snoring sound and died. (The episode never aired.) Pagan Kennedy, New York Times, March 9, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Death Our problem with death is that, compared to our ancestors, we live so long. Seamus O'Mahony, The Way We Die Now © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary self-employed (self em ploid'), adj. How 50- and 60-year-olds describe themselves after exhausting unemployment insurance. Also called freelancing. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Donald Trump is proof self-centered little snots can grow old without growing up © 2016 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Phone scamming the elderly © 2016 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Make America 8 Again Slogan on posters, caps, t-shirts, etc. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Now you've pissed off grandma  Placard, Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am a young, vibrant man. Donald Trump, April 26, 2019  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Sex I'll be obsessed when I'm eighty exactly as I was when I was eighteen. Philip Roth, when middle-aged © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Alpha dogs never die. Never. Anthony Quinn had a baby out of wedlock at 78. His wife was very mad at him. And then he did it again at 81. Anthony Quinn portrayed by Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, November 11, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Social Security In the United States, the poverty rate among older adults is now just 9 percent; if Social Security were not included in their income, it would be 40 percent. Almost one third of beneficiaries rely on the program for at least 90 percent of their income. Cass Sunstein, New York Review of Books, April 4, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
State of the union Death rate of middle-aged whites surging atop drug and alcohol abuse, liver disease, suicide © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union Prime-aged workers being displaced by younger and older ones © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union We're aging at home, alone © 2015 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest According to his doctor, Trump is 6'3" and 239 pounds, which means that, at age 71, he avoided official obesity by guzzling and growing an inch taller January, 2018 --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Technology Apps are a young person's game © 2016 Kwiple.com
Time This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe Within a wood. Philip Larkin, XXVI ‘This is the first thing’ © 2016 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpism No one in the Trump administration was likely to ever come right out and say: “We want to let kids and old people go hungry.” But, obviously, they might run the program so ineptly that it lost its political support. And then kids and old people would go hungry. Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk © 2019 Kwiple.com