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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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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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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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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
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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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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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown