Du er midaldrende, når du synes, du har råd til at købe den flotte sportsjakke, som du ikke havde mod til at bære, da du var ung.
Et problem ved at blive gammel er, at det bliver sværere og sværere at finde nogen i historien, som ikke var særlig fremragende, da han var på din alder.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.