poems about love
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poems about love
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poems about love
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poems about love
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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 disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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 disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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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 birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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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 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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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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
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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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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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