Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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
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
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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