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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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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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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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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
