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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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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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