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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
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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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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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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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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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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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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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