Best Quotes About Birthday (Top 100)
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May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres
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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
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Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
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It takes a very long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley
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How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
Dr. Seuss
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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
George Burns
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns
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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!
Rudyard Kipling
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...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
Terry Pratchett
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
William Wordsworth
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
Susan B. Anthony
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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
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Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
Mother Teresa
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
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Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
Audrey Hepburn
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends
John Lennon
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.
Paris Hilton
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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
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All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
George Harrison
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No love is greater than that of a father for His son.
Dan Brown
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
Joseph Addison
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Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Ogden Nash
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Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
Helen Rowland
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The only thing better than singing is more singing.
Ella Fitzgerald
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Time and tide wait for no man.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
Francis Schaeffer
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If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
Linda Ellerbee
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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Muhammad Ali
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Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot
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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
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Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.
Phyllis Diller
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift
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You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
Joe DiMaggio
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. e. cummings
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What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot
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Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.
Jim Davis
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There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn
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I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
Liv Tyler
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Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away.
George Carlin
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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Agatha Christie
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
John Galsworthy
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
Brooks Atkinson
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Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
Joan Collins
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
Barbara Cartland
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The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.
Catherine Bell
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If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
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I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
George Clooney
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Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.
Sophia Bush
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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Paul Klee
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
Susan B. Anthony
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All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clemenceau
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott
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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Ogden Nash
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I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.
Avril Lavigne
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I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Noel Coward
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To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch
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It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.
Julie Walters
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Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.
Jerry Seinfeld
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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Pierre Corneille
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Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII
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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Billy Joel
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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
Bob Hope
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Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
Robert Orben
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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Casey Stengel
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
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Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
Lucy Larcom
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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Ellen Glasgow
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing
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Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow
Margaret Fuller
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I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
Marilyn Ferguson
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I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
Brandon Boyd
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I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
Mary Pickford
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
Earl Warren
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
Walter Scott
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
Bennett Cerf
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Alphonse Karr
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
John Dryden
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If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
Al Bernstein
Even More Birthday Quotes
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
Dorothy Thompson
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As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
Norman Wisdom
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Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
Franklin P. Adams
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There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
Franklin P. Adams
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Life is too short to be little.
Benjamin Disraeli
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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
Mary Antin
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
Dag Hammarskjold
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I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.
Gypsy Rose Lee
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
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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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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey
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Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen Hayes
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
Marie Dressler
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A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma Bombeck
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A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
Liz Carpenter
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This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
Art Buchwald
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Maurice Chevalier
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The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.
Robert Orben
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
Kin Hubbard
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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young
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The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
Jean Renoir
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There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful
Rene Russo
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I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!
Norman Rockwell
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If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?
Joy Page
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Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.
Edward Steichen
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
George William Curtis
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I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.
Pete Rose
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You don't get older, you get better.
Shirley Bassey
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Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.
Angela Carter
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I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
Phyllis Diller
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Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
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After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Helen Gurley Brown
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May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Frank Sinatra
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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity
Seneca
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How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
Benjamin Franklin
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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
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The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Hume Cronyn
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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark Twain
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Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds
Buddha
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At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30, the wit; at 40, the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin