quotes of love
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quotes of love
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quotes of love
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quotes of love
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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
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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
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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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
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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
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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