A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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