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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~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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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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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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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!)
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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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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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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
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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