A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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
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
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