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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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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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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 disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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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 diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
