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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do 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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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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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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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
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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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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
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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