One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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
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
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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
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
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
