The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
—E. Joseph Cossman
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
—Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) American Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
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.
—Clifton Fadiman (1904–99) American Author, Radio Personality
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
—Truman Capote (1924–84) American Novelist
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
—Edward Young (1683–1765) English Poet
Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.
—Richard Bach (b.1936) American Writer, Aviator
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
—George William Curtis (1824–92) American Writer, Editor, Orator
Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of ‘you’ to the world.
—Unknown
The best years of a woman’s life—the ten years between 39 and 40.
—Indian Proverb
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
—Unknown
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
—Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) American Singer
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
—Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant
Forty isn’t old, if you’re a tree.
—Indian Proverb
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
—Unknown
I’m sorry you are wiser, I sorry you are taller; I liked you better foolish and I liked you better smaller.
—Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941) American Poet
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
We know we’re getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.
—Unknown
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
—Jennifer Yane
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
—Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–94) Ukrainian Rebbe, Scholar
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834) British Essayist, Poet
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
—Ogden Nash (1902–71) American Writer of Sophisticated Light Verse
From our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye.
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) Irish Poet, Dramatist
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
—George Harrison (1943–2001) English Singer
Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.
—Indian Proverb
Birthday Bring Along A truly wonderful chance to leave aside every care and simply enjoy. Have an Extra—Special Birthday.
—Indian Proverb
I’m not 40, I’m eighteen with 22 years experience.
—Unknown
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
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