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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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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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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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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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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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Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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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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Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
