poems
------------------
poems
--------------
poems
--------------
poems
--------------
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
--------------
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
--------------
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
--------------
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
--------------
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
--------------
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
--------------
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
--------------
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
--------------
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
--------------
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
--------------
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
--------------
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
--------------
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
--------------
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
--------------
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
--------------
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
--------------
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
--------------
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
--------------
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
--------------
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
--------------
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
--------------
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
--------------
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
--------------
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
--------------
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
--------------
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
--------------
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!)
--------------
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
--------------
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
--------------
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
--------------
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
--------------
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
--------------
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
--------------
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
--------------
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
--------------
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
--------------
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
--------------
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!)
--------------
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
--------------
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
--------------
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
--------------
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
--------------
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
--------------
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
--------------
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
--------------
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
--------------
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
--------------
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
--------------
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
--------------
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
No comments:
Post a Comment