Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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
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
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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