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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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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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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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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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