Birthday Quotes and Sayings - Page 2



When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark Twain

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Seneca

Life is too short to be small.
Benjamin Disraeli

How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
Benjamin Franklin

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift

If I’d known I was going to live this long (100 years),
I’d have taken better care of myself.
Ubie Blake

It takes a long time to grow young.
Pablo Picasso

There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.
Dave Barry

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

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it.
Michel de Montaigne

Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had, and what you’ve learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.
Anonymous

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents … and only one for birthday presents, you know.
Lewis Carroll

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing

At his wife’s 60th birthday party in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Dick Cheney had a huge steak and battered onion rings for dinner. Afterwards he met with 100 donors, not campaign donors, heart donors.
Jay Leno

The birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
Christina Georgina Rossetti

My birthday!–what a different sound
That word had in my youthful ears;
And how each time the day comes round,
Less and less white its mark appears.
Thomas Moore

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
Voltaire

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball

Inside every older person is a younger person -
wondering what the hell happened.
Cora Harvey Armstrong

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized
for a crime you have not committed.
Anthony Powell

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
Phyllis Diller

Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.
J. P. Sears

From our birthday, until we die,
Is but the winking of an eye.
William Butler Yeats

A birthday:—and now a day that rose
With much of hope, with meaning rife—
A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
The middle day of human life.
Jean Ingelow

Getting old ain’t for sissies.
Betty Davis

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

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