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
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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!)
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
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote