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
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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