Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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