love poetry
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love poetry
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love poetry
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love poetry
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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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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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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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 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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~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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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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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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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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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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