I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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