One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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
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!)
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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
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
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
