poems about love
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poems about love
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poems about love
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poems about love
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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 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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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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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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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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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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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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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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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