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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
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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
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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