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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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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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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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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~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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