Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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