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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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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~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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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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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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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~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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