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!)
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~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
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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