I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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
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
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
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
