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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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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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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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