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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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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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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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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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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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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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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 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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
