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
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
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
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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