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love words
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love words
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love words
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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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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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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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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'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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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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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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