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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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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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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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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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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 would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~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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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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