Birthday Quotes and Sayings
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Sugar in the gourd and honey in the horn,
I was so happy since the hour I was born. - Anonymous

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. - Helen Hayes

'Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's incln'd. - Alexander Pope

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. - James M. Barrie

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. - Margaret Fuller

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? - John Heywood

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

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

The Best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. - H. V. Prochnow

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. - Ellen Glasgow

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. - Thomas Hood

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka

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,... - Andre Gide

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

"I mean, what is an un-birthday present?"
"A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course."
Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last.
"You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?"
"Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice.
"And how many birthdays have you?"
"One." - Lewis Carroll

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

The secret to eternal youth is arrested development. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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. - Margaret Mead

There was a star danced, and under that was I born. - William Shakespeare

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana

You'd scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage,
And if I chance to fall below
Demosthenes or Cicero,
Don't view me with a critic's eye,
But pass my imperfections by.
Large streams from little fountains flow,
Tall oaks from little acorns grow. - David Everett

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. - Virginia Woolf

Youth comes but once in a lifetime. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it. - Rudyard Kipling

Keep true to the dream of thy youth. - Friedrich Von Schiller

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. - Albert Schweitezer

A man over nintey 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. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. - Georges Clemenceau

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. - T. S. Elio

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. - Sophie Tucker

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

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 a how much he had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love. - Jean Renoir

Nature gives you te face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. - Coco Chanel

How far that little candle throws his beams! - William Shakespeare

If you want to be happy, be. - Henry David Thorreau

The secret anniversaries of the heart. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Never look a gift horse in the moouth! - Saint Jerome

God loveth a cheerful giver. - Corinthians

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. - Pierre Cornielle

All my possessions for one moment of time. - Queen Elizabeth!

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. - Carl Sandburg

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh yourself. - Ethel Barrymore

Make hay while the sun shines. - Proverb

One to-day is worth two to-morrows. - Benjamin Franklin

The more things change, the more they remain the same. - Alphonse Karr

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants. - Edward Steichen

If only I mayu grow: firmer, simpler-quieter, warmer. - Dag Hammarskjold

We are always the same age inside. - Gertrude Stein

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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. - Evan S. Connell

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred. - Thomas Alva Edison

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. - French proverb

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement. - Benjamin Franklin

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. - Robert Benchley

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. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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. - Cyril Connolly

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. - Henry Ford

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends! - George Eliot

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. - William Shakespeare

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend. - John Lyle

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life. - Jean De La Fontaine

An old man loved is winter with flowers. - German proverb

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. - James Russell Lowell

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

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. - Oliver Goldsmith

We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same. - Jonathon Swift

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,... - Robert Browning

For he's a jolly good fellow,
For he's a jolly good fellow,
For he's a jolly good fellow,
Which nobody can deny. - Traditional song

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. - Sir Seymour Hicks

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

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. - George Sand

To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder, but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all. - William Makepeace Thackeray

There are days of oldness, and then one gets young again. - Katherine Butler Hathaway

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage. - John Andrew Holmes

Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning. - Bob Hope

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. - Gail Sheehy

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again! - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. - Robert Southey

In a dream you are never eighty. - Anne Sexton

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. - Dorothy Thompson

The first hundred years are the hardest. - Wilson Mizner

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. - Franklin P. Adams

Sixteen candles make a lovely light
But not as bright as your eyes tonight. - Luther Dixon

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

At seventy-seven it is time to be earnest. - Samuel Johnson

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. - Orson Welles

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. - Anna Magnani

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics. - William Feather

Old age is not for sissies. - Malcolm Forbes

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. - Bernard M. Baruch

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache. - James Russell Lowell

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

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

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. - Maurice Chevalier

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. - Malcolm Cowley

A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it. - R. C. Ferguson

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends-
It gives a lovely light! - Edna St. Vincent Millay

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. - Molly Keane

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. - Mark Twain

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and "you are looking wonderful." - Francis Cardinal Spellman

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - Henry L. Mencken

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. - Bernard M. Baruch

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. - Don Marquis

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. - Jim Bishop

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. - Reverend Larry Lorenzoni

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love. - Jean Renoir

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives. - Maurice Chevalier

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday. - John Glenn

Those whom the gods love grow young. - Oscar Wilde

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it. - Doris Day

Money is appropriate, and one size fits all. - William Randolph Hearst on suggestions for gifts

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday, but never remembers her age. - Robert Lee Frost

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. - Bob Hope

Youth has no age. - Pablo Picasso

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

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything. - Oscar Wilde "A Woman of No Importance"

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! - John Milton on his 23rd birthday in 1631

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

An old man loved is winter with flowers. - German Proverb

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

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. - Anonymous

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. - Anon

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
--Robert Frost

"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. Seneca Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come."
--Rabindranath Tagore

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.
--Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) American reformer

Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth.
--Ralph Parlette

I never forget my wife's birthday. It's usually the day after she reminds me about it.

When I have a birthday I take the day off. But when my wife has a birthday, she takes a year or two off.

Birthdays, humph.... My folks were so poor we couldn't give my sister a sweet 16 party until she was 28.

On my 60th birthday my wife gave me a superb birthday present. She let me win an argument.

A well adjusted woman is one who not only knows what she wants for her birthday, but even knows what she's going to exchange it for.

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

It's so sad to grow old alone. My wife hasn't had a birthday in 4 years. She was born in the year of our Lord-only-knows.

By the time the last candle was lit on her birthday cake in February, the first one had gone out. If she ever told her real age her birthday cake would be a fire hazard. When it was fully lit it looked like a prairie fire.

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.
--Frederick Leboyer

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come from
God, who is our home.
--William Wordsworth

Old age is not for sissies.
--Bette Davis