Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.