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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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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
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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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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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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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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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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
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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