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
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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