Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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
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
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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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