For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
—Unknown
Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.
—Indian Proverb
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
—Jennifer Yane
My wife hasn’t had a birthday in 4 years. She was born in the year of our Lord-only-knows.
—Indian Proverb
You are only young once, but you can be immature forever.
—Unknown
I’m lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth’s last love. I will take life’s final offering; I will take the last human blessing.
—Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali Poet, Polymath
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
—George Harrison (1943–2001) English Singer
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
—Indian Proverb
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
—Edward Young (1683–1765) English Poet
If there’s something that you’re dreaming of then may it all come true, because you deserve it all…happy birthday.
—Indian Proverb
The best years of a woman’s life—the ten years between 39 and 40.
—Indian Proverb
Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of ‘you’ to the world.
—Unknown
Life is too short to be small.
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81) British Head of State
From our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye.
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) Irish Poet, Dramatist
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
—Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) American Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
Hope your Birthday gently breezes into your life all the choicest of things and all that your heart holds dear Have a Fun-Filled Day.
—Steven Wright (b.1955) American Comedian, Actor, Writer
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.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Birthday Bring Along A truly wonderful chance to leave aside every care and simply enjoy. Have an Extra—Special Birthday.
—Indian Proverb
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
—Truman Capote (1924–84) American Novelist
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
—Margaret Fuller (1810–50) American Feminist, Writer, Revolutionary
Looking fifty is great—if you’re sixty.
—Unknown
Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.
—Steven Wright (b.1955) American Comedian, Actor, Writer
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, “Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.”
—Sam Levenson (1911–80) American Humorist, Writer, TV Personality, Journalist
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
—Robert South (1634–1716) English Theologian, Preacher
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
—Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant
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.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.
—Indian Proverb
Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, “ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.” One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
—Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) British Crime Writer
Leave a Reply