Birthday Quotes - Page 14

• Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

  Karl Jaspers

  Philosophy, Made, Approaching Life

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• I intend to live forever. So far, so good. - T-SHIRT

  Darynda Jones

  Funny, Humorous, Forever

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.21, St. Martin's Press

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• Time and tide wait for no man.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Time, Fate

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• Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Time, Men

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• Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

  Margaret Fuller

  Grows, Objects, My Birthday

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.55, UPNE

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• You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Blow

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• Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

  Joey Adams

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Joey Adams (1981). “Strictly for laughs”, A & W Publishers, Inc.

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• You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

  Dave Barry

  Cute, Teenage, Book

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• The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

  Pierre Corneille

  Christmas, Giving, Christmas Giving

  "The Liar". Play by Pierre Corneille, 1643.

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• I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.

  Sloane Crosley

  Summer, Baby, Memories

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• Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Giving, Advice

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• It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Truth, Men, Sight

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

  James A. Garfield

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Brother, Hunting, Knives

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• My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

  Boris Johnson

  Cake, Dessert, Eating

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

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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

  Time, Years, Confusion

  The Sunday Times (London), May 10, 1992.

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• A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

  Arnold Bennett

  Retirement, Years, Fortune Cookie

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• The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Years, Giving

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• Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Time, Hipster

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• I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Meaningful, Years

  "‘Orange Is the New Black’ ... Geek Is the New Chic... 60 Is the New?" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2013.

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• Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

  Groucho Marx

  Cute Life, Cells, Cynical

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• You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

  Henry Ford

  Running, Men, Experience

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• A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

  Seneca the Younger

  Done, Benefits, Charity

  "De Beneficiis" by Seneca the Younger, I. 6, 63 AD.

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Tattoo, Death, Condolences

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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