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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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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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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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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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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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'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~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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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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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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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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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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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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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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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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