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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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 when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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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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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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