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great quotes
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great quotes
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great quotes
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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 the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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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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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
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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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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~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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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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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~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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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
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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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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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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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