Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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
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





A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown







He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor







We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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