Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw

Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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
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