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
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
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~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
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