--------------
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
--------------
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
--------------
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
--------------
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
--------------
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
--------------
--------------
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
--------------
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
--------------
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
--------------
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
--------------
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
--------------
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
--------------
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
--------------
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
--------------
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
--------------
--------------
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
--------------
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
--------------
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
--------------
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
--------------
--------------
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
--------------
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
--------------
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
--------------
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
--------------
