quote of the day
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quote of the day
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quote of the day
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quote of the day
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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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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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~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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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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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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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~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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