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
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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
