Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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
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
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
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