A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
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!)
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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
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
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
