short poems
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short poems
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short poems
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short poems
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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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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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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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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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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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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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 when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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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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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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