I used to work in a fire hydrant factory.
You couldn't park anywhere near the place. -Steven Wright

“The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.” - Lily Tomlin

"Men have attained happiness by realizing that it does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles."
Arnold Bennett

Italics mine

Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon
perching on this silver minute of evening.

ee cummings

From a post on customerssuck.com:

"Sweetie- remember, you never want to be a bitch by accident."

That reminds me of this one:

Vera Donovan: Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.

from Dolores Claiborne

There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
--Larry Wall (author of Perl)

War would end if the dead could return. -- Stanley Baldwin, statesman
(1867-1947)

Can't do the right thing while you're doing wrong.

It takes a long time to grow young - Pablo Picasso

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. English Proverb

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Jack Benny

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up...a lot of people don't have the courage to do it. - Helen Hayes )

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. – Anonymous

Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come. - Lucy Larcom

I wish it were that easy. Maybe when you are past 50 or 60 it is, but during the transitional phase, it friggin sucks.

"You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles."
-- Miracle Max

"This is the sort of pedantic nonsense up with which I will not put."

--Winston Churchill, attributed

You can mull it over with the help of what's here.

I prefer this story on the same topic:

On his first day at Harvard a young man from Arkansas approached a couple of seniors.

'Hey, y'all, where's the library at?'

One replied haughtily, 'At Harvard, we prefer not to end a sentence with a preposition.'

The young man thought for a moment, and said, 'Alright. Where's the library at, asshole?'