Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Christopher Morley, (May 5 1890-1957), US novelist, journalist; His works included the best-selling novel Kitty Foyle, 1939.