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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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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
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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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
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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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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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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