Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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!)
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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