Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
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
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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