Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift." Clara: "What?" Tucker: "You. ― Cynthia Hand

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Old is always fifteen years from now.

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Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

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Work is the best friend I have ever known. It has brought me all the good things I have had. — John Soforic

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For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together. — Vincent Van Gogh

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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

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I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army. Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two. ― John Scalzi

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