quotes about love
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quotes about love
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quotes about love
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quotes about love
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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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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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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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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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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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 would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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