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
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
—Truman Capote (1924–84) American Novelist
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
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
The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.
—Robert Orben (1927–2023) American Humorist, Speechwriter
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
Birthday Bring Along A truly wonderful chance to leave aside every care and simply enjoy. Have an Extra—Special Birthday.
—Indian Proverb
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
—Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) American Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
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
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
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
—Unknown
From our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye.
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) Irish Poet, Dramatist
Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
—George William Curtis (1824–92) American Writer, Editor, Orator
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
—Margaret Fuller (1810–50) American Feminist, Writer, Revolutionary
This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.
—Dorothy Fuldheim (1893–1989) American Television News Anchor
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
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
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
—Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
—Unknown
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
You are only young once, but you can be immature forever.
—Unknown
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
—Indian Proverb
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
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
—Unknown
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834) British Essayist, Poet
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, Teacher
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
—Unknown
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