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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
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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
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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
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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
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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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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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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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
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