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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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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 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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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