poems about life
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poems about life
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poems about life
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poems about life
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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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 having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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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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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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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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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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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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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
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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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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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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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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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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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