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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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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
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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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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~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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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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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
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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