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
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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
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 is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
