love letters
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love letters
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love letters
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love letters
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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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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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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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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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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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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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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