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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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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
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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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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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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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