I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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
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
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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
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
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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
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
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
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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