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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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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~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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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
