Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
