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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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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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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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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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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 secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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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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