One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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!)
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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