sayings of the day
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sayings of the day
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sayings of the day
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sayings of the day
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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 having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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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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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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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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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're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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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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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 father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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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 is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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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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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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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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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~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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