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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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!)
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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
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
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
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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