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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
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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
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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
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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
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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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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
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
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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
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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