I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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