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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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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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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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 first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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