Rules For Aging Quotes

“Never miss an opportunity to do nothing”
― Roger Rosenblatt, Rules For Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life

“Anyone who feels inadequate to a position of authority will inevitably: a) trust the wrong people for advice; b) betray you at the drop of a name; c) mess up the whole enterprise and throw everyone into unemployment. Such people may not mean to do any of those things, but they are driven, night and day, by a fear of exposure. They know that they are inept; you know that they are inept; they know that you know it. Better always to work for a competent tyrant. I am self-employed.”
― Roger Rosenblatt, Rules For Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life

“Life gets very dangerous if you play it defensively or fearfully. Michael Jordan said that he rarely got injured because he never played at half speed. Life is only rewarding if you play at full speed. It is not only more fun, it is also safer.”
― Roger Rosenblatt, Rules For Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life

“About the Author Winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize, a Peabody Award, an Emmy, and two Polk awards, ROGER ROSENBLATT is University Professor of Writing at Long Island University Southampton College. He writes essays for Time magazine and for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. He lives in Manhattan and Quogue, Long Island.”
― Roger Rosenblatt, Rules For Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life

“Do not judge others by their dramatic moments—how they may panic or become nasty or wild in a crisis—in contrast to their much different normal behavior.”
― Roger Rosenblatt, Rules For Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life

“Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac: "That's not writing, it's typing.”
― Roger Rosenblatt, Rules For Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life

“Stay clear of anyone—other than a clergyman—who refers to God more than once in an hour One sees a growing number of professional moralists who appear on TV telling people what God wants of them. If these folks are right about God, it is splendid news, and one should follow them as if they were Moses. If, however, they have misinterpreted God's wishes—about political candidates, free expression, human reproduction, and other issues on which He is said to be communicating His opinions to a select few—or if these professional moralists have mistaken God's voice for, say, Elvis's, then paying attention to them may only lead to divine trouble. Better to play it safe and avoid such people. The danger in hanging around them is that God may be tired of listening to them misrepresent Him and decide to revert to His old bad-tempered tricks with locusts and floods. Of course, this being the 21st century, He may have refined His arsenal so that He can pick off only the offenders and leave the rest of us unharmed. But I would not count on this. God is good, but He may not be that good. ***”
― Roger Rosenblatt, Rules For Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life

“Male and Female Compatibility Rules: a. She's right. b. He's really thinking about nothing. Really.”
― Roger Rosenblatt, Rules for Aging: Resist Normal Impulses, Live Longer, Attain Perfection