I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old

by Sourcebooks

Overview

When you've become sick and tired of counting your birthdays, here's some light-hearted relief in a collection of hundreds of quotes about getting older and staying younger.

"People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately."

—Russell Baker

"The advantage of bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."

—Friedrich Wilhelm Neitzsche

"I'm 65, and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics; but if there were 15 months in every year, I'd only be 48."

—James Thurber

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402206733
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	03/01/2006
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	760,262
Product dimensions:	4.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.64(d)

Editorial Reviews

As Arthur Schopenhauer put it, "The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it." Rachel Schwandt's I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old gathers hundreds of quotations on the advantages and challenges of aging.