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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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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 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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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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 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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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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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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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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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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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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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