Remember this Monty Python sketch?
(It took heroic will power to not spend the next 8 hours looking up Lumberjacks, Parrots, Spam, Silly Walks or The Spanish Inquisition.)
Some communities are getting clever in managing the senile delinquents.
A Senior Playground in London. (Being London, there might be a dress code.)
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency
- Virginia Woolf
No man is ever old enough to know better
- Holbrook Jackson
The older I grow the more I distrust
the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom
- Henry Louis Mencken
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.
Sometimes age just shows up all by itself
- Tom Wilson
Beijing is also providing an alternative for senior hoodlums.
Old people love to give good advice
to console themselves
for no longer being able to set a bad example
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
However, in Moscow, geriatric troublemakers have to make due with the community playground.
None are so old
as those who have outlived enthusiasm
- Henry David Thoreau
The idea is to die young as late as possible
- Ashley Montague
As you get older
it is harder to have heroes,
but it is sort of necessary
- Ernest Hemingway
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