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
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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
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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