love poetry
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love poetry
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love poetry
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love poetry
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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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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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
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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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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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
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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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