Birthday Quotes - Page 29

• Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

  Roseanne Barr

  Travel, Humor, Men

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• One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

  Walter Scott

  Names, Glorious Life, Dancing

  Sir Walter Scott (1820). “Waverly Novels: The antiquary. The black dwarf. Old mortality”, p.608

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• Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.

  Lynsay Sands

  Happy Birthday, Country, Bummer

  Nancy Martin, Lynsay Sands (2015). “A Quick Bite”, p.62, Harlequin

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• Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Death, Time, Taxation

  Gone with theWind pt. 4, ch. 38 (1936) See Benjamin Franklin 41; Proverbs 63

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• Time keeps on... slippin'... slippin'... slippin' into the future.

  J.R. Ward

  J. R. Ward (2010). “Fallen Angels - Die Ankunft: Fallen Angels 1”, p.307, Heyne Verlag

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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

  Inspirational, Life, Fall

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• Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

  Mark Twain

  Failure, Age, Privilege

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

  Danielle Steel

  Good Life, Why Not, May

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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

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Mother And Daughter

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• Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

  Christian Furchtegott Gellert

  Life, Positive, Death

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• Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

  John Ruskin

  Time, Past, Scrapbooking

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.94

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• One today is worth two tomorrows.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Men, Years

  1870 Society and Solitude,'Old Age'.

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• The secret anniversaries of the heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Heart, Holiday

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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• How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Past

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• If you want to be happy, be.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 352, 2006.

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• You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

  William Dean Howells

  Confidence, Time, Age

  William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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• The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Friendship, Giving Up, Real

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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

  Love, Family, Mothers Day

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• Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday?

  Prince

  Party, Young Birthday

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• I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.

  Toby Keith

  Song: I Ain't As Good As I Once Was, Album: Honkytonk University, 2005

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• Time, where did you go? / Why did you leave me here alone? / Wait, don't go so fast / I'm missing the moments as they pass

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Waiting, Missing, Moments

  Song: Time, Album: What If It All Means Something, 2002

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• The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

  Max Lerner

  Change, Real, Creativity

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last.

  Al Forman

  Humorous, Fans, Cards

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