Mid-life Ponderer Gifts

'I've used up all my eligibilities'

Corporate departments as a metaphor for growing up.

"Colin kept the bar fairly low."

'I'm not sure what I want out of life, but I want a lot of it.'

'Where Are They Now?'

'Take a good look, Junior. When I was your age, I was 'Fun Size,' too.'

"I'm 59 and they say I'm middle aged. Just how many people do you know who are 118?"

'I think I'm getting somewhere. On the way over I stopped to smell the flowers.'

The meaning of life is to avoid falling rocks

"Death coach..."

Midlife: You Are Here.

"I'm so sorry that I screamed...I had a terrible dream: the kids had to leave college and live with us again...Oh, Ed, it was horrible!"

Baxter finally gets a life

Truth

This is what Fred gets for wishing for more hair.

"In a former life, I was exactly the same."

Wally dozes off in the middle of his mid-life crisis.

"You what? Well, you darn well ought to have a guilt complex"

"It seems like only yesterday I was on the verge of getting it all together."

"Last time I saw you, you were just a baby."

'Yeah, I hate change, too.'

"I just don't know what to do with myself in that long stretch after college but before social security."

Phil at Fifty: Still Trying to Find Himself

They all thought they'd be astronauts...instead they're all accountants.

The big life questions that really get us thinking.

"Yesterday I got in touch with a childhood friend!"

Bowther, Wilkin, Lynch & Fisk

'I've turned another corner in my life.' 'One more corner and you'll be back where you started.'

What you want in life is sometimes out of reach.

"See, the problem with doing things to prolong your life is that all the extra years come at the end, when you're old."

'You know the rules, Mr Dotterill - you're only allowed one visitor at a time.'

'In denial and loving it!'

"Remember when we used to flock together, instead of just tweeting all day on line?"