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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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 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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~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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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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
