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
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
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
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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!)
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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
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
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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