Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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
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!)
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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