I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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