quotes and sayings
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quotes and sayings
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quotes and sayings
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quotes and sayings
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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!)
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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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
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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
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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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
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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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
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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
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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
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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!)
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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
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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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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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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
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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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
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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
