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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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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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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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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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 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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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 father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~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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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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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
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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 would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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