I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
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
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
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
