By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We

have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

• ~ Marie Dressler

How Old Are These Boys?

Skiing at Dizin

• I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

• ~ Wendy Cope

• Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am

merely in disguise. - Margaret Atwood

ITOT: Toad of Toad Hall--Grade 9

•Forty is the old age of youth;

Fifty is the youth of old age.

•~French proverb

Iran American Society / Masquers

• "Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end."

-- Richard Bach

"Inside every older person is a younger person - wondering what the hell happened."

-- Cora Harvey Armstrong

• To me, fair friend, you never can be old,

For as you were when first your eye I eye'd,

Such seems your beauty still. • -- William Shakespeare

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 50TH BIJAN!!!

TAVALOTET MOBARAK!

Love,

Michael