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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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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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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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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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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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
