BIRTHDAYS

Quote: Sugar in the gourd and honey in the horn, I was so happy since the hour I was born.

Author: Anonymous


Quote: How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments

Author: Benjamin Franklin


Quote: A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Author: Robert Lee Frostz


Quote: Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

Author: John Heywood


Quote: I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.

Author: Pete Rose


Quote: The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Author: Lucille Ball


Quote: The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Author: English Proverb


Quote: Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Author: Jack Benny


Quote: The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

Author: Oscar Wilde


Quote: There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke


Quote: PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind, And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

Author: Alexander Pope


Quote: Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Author: Fred Astaire


Quote: Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

Author: Lucy Larcom


Quote: It takes a long time to grow young.

Author: Pablo Picasso


Quote: It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Author: Bishop Richard Cumberland


Quote: My Birthday! what a difference sound That word had in my youthful ears; And how each time the day comes round, Less and less white its mark appears.

Author: Thomas Moore


Quote: Here's a posy of flowers, and a basket too, With Birthday greetings all for you.

Author: Anonymous


Quote: To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Author: Henri Frederic Amiel


Quote: I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Author: Elizabeth Arden


Quote: Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Author: Thomas Arnold


Quote: I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Author: Lady Nancy Astor


Quote: Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Author: Daniel Francois Esprit Auber


Quote: We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Author: May L. Becker


Quote: You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Author: Anouk Aimee


Quote: The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Author: Amos Bronson Alcott


Quote: To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Author: Thomas B. Aldrich


Quote: To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Author: Samuel Beckett


Quote: There is still no cure for the common birthday.

Author: John Glenn


Quote: We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.

Author: Anonymous


Quote: Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Author: Chili Davis


Quote: I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

Author: Steven Wright


Quote: Artificial intelligence is a wonderful thing. I told my computer that today is my birthday, and it said that I needed an upgrade

Author: Unknown


Quote: Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.

Author: Unknown


Quote: The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

Author: Unknown


Quote: A true friend remembers your birthday but not your age.

Author: Unknown


Quote: Yesterday, it was my birthday I hung one more year on the line I should be depressed My life's a mess But I'm Having A Good Time...

Author: Paul Simon


Quote: Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

Author: Susan B. Anthony


Quote: Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth.

Author: Ralph Parlett


Quote: Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

Author: Frederick Leboyer


Quote: The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Author: Seneca


Quote: Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

Author: Rabindranath


Quote: Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up...a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Author: Helen Hayes


Quote: 'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's incln'd.

Author: Alexander Pope


Quote: When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Author: James M. Barrie


Quote: Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Author: Margaret Fuller


Quote: Sing a song of Birthdays Full of fun and cheer And may you keep on having them For many a happy year.

Author: Anonymous


Quote: Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, And that has twenty-eight days clear And twenty-nine in each leap year.

Author: Anonymous


Quote: Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.

Author: Anonymous


Quote: There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Author: Edith Wharton


Quote: Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

Author: Robert Lynd


Quote: It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

Author: Ellen Glasgow


Quote: I remember, I remember The roses, red and white, The violets, and the lily-cups, Those flowers made of light! The lilacs, where the robin built, And where my brother set The laburmum on his birthday,- The tree is living yet.

Author: Thomas Hood


Quote: Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Author: Franz Kafka


Quote: At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Author: Andre Gide


Quote: My heart is like a singing bird... Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

Author: Christine Rossetti


Quote: want to be an artist To paint pictures just for you, So when each birthday comes around, I can send you quite a few.

Author: Anonymous


Quote: The secret to eternal youth is arrested development.

Author: Alice Roosevelt Longworth


Quote: It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Author: Margaret Mead


Quote: There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Author: William Shakespeare


Quote: There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Author: George Santayana


Quote: One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Author: Virginia Woolf


Quote: Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Quote: Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

Author: Rudyard Kipling


Quote: Keep true to the dream of thy youth.

Author: Friedrich Von Schiller


Quote: It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

Author: Albert Schweitezer


Quote: A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes


Quote: Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Author: Georges Clemenceau


Quote: The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Author: T. S. Eliot


Quote: From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

Author: Sophie Tucker


Quote: When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see yourself acting like you parents.

Author: Blair Sabol


Quote: 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: Mark Twain


Quote: Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Author: Coco Chanel


Quote: How far that little candle throws his beams!

Author: William Shakespeare


Quote: If you want to be happy, be.

Author: Henry David Thoreau


Quote: The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Quote: Never look a gift horse in the mouth!

Author: St. Jerome


Quote: The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Author: Pierre Cornielle


Quote: Born on Monday, Fair in face; Born on Tuesday, Full of God's grace; Born on Wednesday, Sour and sad; Born on Thursday, Merry and glad; Born on Friday, Worthily given; Born on Saturday, Work hard for your living; Born on Sunday, You will never know want.

Author: Anonymous


Quote: Here's a birthday spanking, Sent you on a card, One, Two, Three, Put them right on hard, Four, Five, Six One to live on, one to grow on, One to make you fat.

Author: Anonymous


Quote: After all, tomorrow is another day.

Author: Margaret Mitchell


Quote: Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

Author: Carl Sandburg


Quote: You grow up the day you have your first real laugh yourself.

Author: Ethel Barrymore


Quote: One to-day is worth two to-morrows.

Author: Benjamin Franklin


Quote: The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Author: Alphonse Karr


Quote: Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

Author: Edward Steichen


Quote: If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Author: Dag Hammarskjold


Quote: We are always the same age inside.

Author: Gertrude Stein


Quote: The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton


Quote: Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

Author: Evan S. Connell


Quote: I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Author: Thomas Alva Edison


Quote: Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

Author: French proverb


Quote: At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.

Author: Benjamin Franklin


Quote: A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

Author: Robert Benchley


Quote: You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


Quote: No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn by ourselves, from a book.

Author: Cyril Connolly


Quote: You take all the experience and judgement of men over fifty out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

Author: Henry Ford


Quote: How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

Author: George Eliot


Quote: To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eye'd, Such seems your beauty still.

Author: William Shakespeare


Quote: Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend.

Author: John Lyle


Quote: Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Author: Ogden Nash


Quote: Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be... Author: Robert Browning

Quote: You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

Author: Sir Seymour Hicks


Quote: What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Author: Brigitte Bardot


Quote: Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Author: George Sand


Quote: There are days of oldness, and then one gets young again.

Author: Katherine Butler Hathaway


Quote: At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.

Author: John Andrew Holmes


Quote: Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

Author: Bob Hope


Quote: The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

Author: Gail Sheehy


Quote: What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


Quote: Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Author: Robert Southey


Quote: In a dream you are never eighty.

Author: Anne Sexton


Quote: Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Author: Dorothy Thompson


Quote: The first hundred years are the hardest.

Author: Wilson Mizner


Quote: There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Author: Franklin P. Adams


Quote: Sixteen candles make a lovely light But not as bright as your eyes tonight.

Author: Luther Dixon


Quote: The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men.

Author: Colleen McCullough


Quote: At seventy-seven it is time to be earnest.

Author: Samuel Johnson


Quote: At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

Author: Orson Welles


Quote: Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Author: Anna Magnani


Quote: One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

Author: William Feather


Quote: Old age is not for sissies.

Author: Malcolm Forbes


Quote: To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Author: Bernard M. Baruch


Quote: A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomach ache.

Author: James Russell Lowell


Quote: In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Author: Albert Camus


Quote: If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.

Author: Katherine Hepburn


Quote: Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Author: Maurice Chevalier


Quote: They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Author: Malcolm Cowley


Quote: A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

Author: R. C. Ferguson


Quote: Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change.

Author: Molly Keane


Quote: Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Author: Mark Twain


Quote: You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.

Author: Francis Cardinal Spellman


Quote: The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Author: Henry L. Mencken


Quote: Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Author: Don Marquis


Quote: At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

Author: Jim Bishop


Quote: Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.

Author: Reverend Larry Lorenzoni


Quote: The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

Author: Jean Renoir


Quote: For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.

Author: John Glenn


Quote: Those whom the gods love grow young.

Author: Oscar Wilde


Quote: The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

Author: Doris Day


Quote: You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Author: Bob Hope


Quote: Youth has no age.

Author: Pablo Picasso


Quote: Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Author: Goethe


Quote: One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything.

Author: Oscar Wilde


Quote: Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Author: Anonymous


Quote: Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days -- whatever there may be for the dust -- the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet


Quote: To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

Author: Cliff Fadiman American Writer


Quote: The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author


Quote: I'm sorry you are wiser, I sorry you are taller; I liked you better foolish and I liked you better smaller.

Author: Aline Murray Kilmer


Quote: Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Author: Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825, German Novelist