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
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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
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
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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