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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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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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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~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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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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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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