Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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
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
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