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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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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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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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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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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 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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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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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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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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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