quote of the day
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quote of the day
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quote of the day
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quote of the day
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
