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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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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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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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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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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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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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