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
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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
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
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