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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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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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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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
