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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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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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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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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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 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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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