Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~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
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
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