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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 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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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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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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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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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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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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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