short poems
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short poems
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short poems
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short poems
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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
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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
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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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
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
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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
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