The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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
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
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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
