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
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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