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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~Author Unknown
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.  ~Ogden Nash
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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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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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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
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I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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There is still no cure for the common birthday.  ~John Glenn

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powow poetry reading. Tomorrow, Saturday May 7, I have the pleasure of

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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.  ~William Wordsworth
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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
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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
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I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.  ~Herbert Asquith
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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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When asked if I would do something similar for poetry, my first response was

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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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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.  ~Truman Capote
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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 the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.  ~Don Marquis
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Never raise your hand to your kids.  It leaves your groin unprotected.  ~Red Buttons

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Poetry, for me, isn't something I go out of my way to read.

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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.  Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  ~Tom Wilson
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.  ~Charles Schulz
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter
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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
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.  ~Bob Hope
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~Author Unknown

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.  ~Bob Hope
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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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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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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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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.  ~Johann Schiller
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.  ~Ogden Nash
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~Author Unknown
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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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I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997