Mid-life Ponderer Prints

'He's going through a phase of wanting to be a grape again.'

'I've used up all my eligibilities'

Micro Psychiatry Clinic. You have a full schedule today, Doctor. The helium atom will be here to work on his fear of heights. The white blood cell with a germ phobia and amoeba with separation anxiety are coming in. The DNA molecule will be here about an identity crisis. And here, in the sports car, comes a new patient, a carbon-14 isotope. Ah, looks like he's going through a half-life crisis!

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.'

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

The meaning of life is to avoid falling rocks

'Where Are They Now?'

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

"Death coach..."

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

Midlife: You Are Here.

I was starting a new chapter in my life and I tripped over a footnote.

"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

This is what Fred gets for wishing for more hair.

Truth

"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."

Been there. Done that. (Man stands between two doors.)

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

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

"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."

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

Phil at Fifty: Still Trying to Find Himself

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

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

Bowther, Wilkin, Lynch & Fisk

What you want in life is sometimes out of reach.

The big life questions that really get us thinking.

"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.'