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Birthdays are good for you; the more you
have the longer you live! -- Unknown |
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You are only
young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
-- Ogden Nash |
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If you want to be happy, be. -- Henry David Thorreau |
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Birthdays
are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most
live the longest. -- Reverend Larry Lorenzoni |
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You've heard
of the three ages of man - youth, age, and "you are looking
wonderful." -- Francis Cardinal Spellman
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In the midst
of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible
summer. -- Albert Camus |
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The old
believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know
everything. -- Oscar Wilde |
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You know you
are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. -- Bob Hope
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All my life,
I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more
specific. -- Jane Wagner |
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Middle age
is when your age starts to show around your middle. -- Bob Hope
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The really
frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of
it. -- Doris Day |
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It is
utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning
into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into
old age. -- Margaret Mead |
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Youth had
been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it. --
Rudyard Kipling |
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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. --
Jimi Hendrix |
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Home is where you keep your "stuff" while
you're out getting more "stuff". -- George Carlin |
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Nature gives
you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face
you have at fifty. -- Coco Chanel |
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Women
deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty
eight and forty. -- James Thurber. |
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We are
always the same age inside. -- Gertrude Stein
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At twenty
years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the
judgment. -- Benjamin Franklin |
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Just
remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. --
Charles Schultz |
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Please don't
retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. -- Anna Magnani
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Youth has no
age. -- Pablo Picasso |
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Grow old
along with me! The best is yet to be.... -- Robert Browning
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Happiness is
good health and a bad memory. -- Ingrid Bergman
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Birth may be
a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one. -- Frederick Leboyer
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Youth is the
gift of nature, but age is the work of art. -- Garson Kanin
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Keep true to
the dream of thy youth. -- Friedrich Von Schiller
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Whatever
with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come. -- Lucy Larcom
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Time draweth
wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend. --
John Lyle |
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Youth comes
but once in a lifetime. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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There are
days of oldness, and then one gets young again. -- Katherine Butler
Hathaway |
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At middle
age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a
cabbage. -- John Andrew Holmes |
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Middle age
is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning. -- Bob
Hope |
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You take all
the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world and
there wouldn't be enough left to run it. -- Henry Ford
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Old age is
like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is
nothing you can do about it.-- Golda Meir |
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It's sad to
grow old, but nice to ripen. -- Brigitte Bardot
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Middle age
is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet
reminds you of someone else. -- Ogden Nash |
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Wrinkles
should merely indicate where smiles have been. -- Mark Twain
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If you want
to look young and thin, hang around old fat people. -- Jim Eason
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The older I
grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-- Henry L. Mencken |
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For all the
advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
-- John Glenn |
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Those whom
the gods love grow young. -- Oscar Wilde |
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The lovely
thing about being forty is that you can appreciate
twenty-five-year-old men. -- Colleen McCullough
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You will
recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out
into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young
the policemen look. -- Sir Seymour Hicks |
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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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Confidence
is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --
Unknown |
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Old age
isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -- Maurice Chevalier
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Try to keep
your soul young and quivering right up to old age. -- George Sand
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The manner
of giving is worth more than the gift. -- Pierre Cornielle
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When I
passed forty I dropped pretense, ‘cause men like women who got some
sense. -- Maya Angelou |
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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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PLeas'd to
look forward, pleas'd to look behind, and count each birthday with a
grateful mind. -- Alexander Pope |
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Very early,
I knew that the only object in life was to grow. -- Margaret Fuller
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To me,
old age is always ten years older than I am. --
John Burroughs |
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Most of us
can remember a time when a birthday, especially if it was one's own,
brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. -- Robert Lynd
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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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Youth is
happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the
ability to see beauty never grows old. -- Franz Kafka
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There was a
star danced, and under that was I born. -- William Shakespeare
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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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The
spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. --
Plato |
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Lead me not
into temptation; I can find it myself. -- Unknown
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I am long on
ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
-- Thomas Alva Edison |
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Forty is the
old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. -- French proverb
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I love
everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books,
old wines. -- Oliver Goldsmith |
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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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Of middle
age, the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely
learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. -- Don
Marquis |
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Age is an
issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. --
Mark Twain |
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We grow too soon old
and too late smart. --
Pennsylvania Dutch proverb |
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Men grow old, pearls grow
yellow, there is no cure for it. -- Chinese
proverb |
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Blessed is
the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to
worry at night. -- Unknown |
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Time flies
like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx
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Today is the
yesterday you worried about tomorrow. -- Unknown
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If you
survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building. --
Katherine Hepburn |
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Be kind to
your kids, they'll be choosing your nursing home. -- Unknown
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A diamond
cannot be polished without friction, nor a man
perfected without trials. -- Chinese
Proverb |
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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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Sing a song
of Birthdays
Full of fun and cheer
And may you keep on having them
For many a happy year. -- Anonymous |
