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Mature Tymes - Features senior-focused news in a variety of categories.
Silver Surfers - UK-based Internet gateway for the over 50s.
Over50s - Ezine and portal for the over 50's, with a wide variety of channels and features. Free membership.
CenNet - Lifestyle site edited by seniors for seniors. Includes articles about seniors' lifestyles and related links.
Baby Boomer Bistro - Chat site developed specifically for the over-50's.
FiftyOn - Job listings and career advice for the over 50s, built into an ezine which also offers sections on lifestyles, health, finances and leisure.
Seniors Network - Information, advice, campaigns, news, features and forums on a variety of senior-interest topics.
Seniority - A community site created by and for people in their fifties; listing information on entertainment, home and hobbies, money, news, shopping, sport and travel.
Club55plus - Listings of insurance companies (in all sectors, including motor, house and holiday) which offer discounts for older people.
Vic's Retirement Site - Ideas and tips on how to enjoy retirement as fully as possible.
Silver Links - Mainly British senior friendly websites: compiled by a retired librarian
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Seniors Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Seniors Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Seniors "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from Seniors Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Seniors He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Seniors People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Seniors My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau Seniors In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha Seniors Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Seniors "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous Seniors When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Seniors Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Seniors "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln Seniors As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Seniors Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Seniors Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Seniors The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage Seniors Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Seniors Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Seniors We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Seniors When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese Seniors
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