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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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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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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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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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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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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 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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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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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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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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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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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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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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