You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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!)
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