Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.
—Steven Wright (b.1955) American Comedian, Actor, Writer
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.
—Indian Proverb
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
—Unknown
The best years of a woman’s life—the ten years between 39 and 40.
—Indian Proverb
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
The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
—E. Joseph Cossman
Looking fifty is great—if you’re sixty.
—Unknown
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
Birthday Bring Along A truly wonderful chance to leave aside every care and simply enjoy. Have an Extra—Special Birthday.
—Indian Proverb
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
—Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
—Robert South (1634–1716) English Theologian, Preacher
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
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834) British Essayist, Poet
Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.
—Indian Proverb
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
—Indian Proverb
Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
Forty isn’t old, if you’re a tree.
—Indian Proverb
From our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye.
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) Irish Poet, Dramatist
all of us are joining in to say, that May the year which your birthday begins, brings all the special things, that mean the most to you!
—Indian Proverb
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
—Larry Lorenzoni
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
—Edward Young (1683–1765) English Poet
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
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
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
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
—Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Humorist
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
—Unknown
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian