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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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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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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
