Birthday Quotes - Page 5

• Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

  Lawrence Tierney

  Beautiful, Couple, People

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• The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

  Joseph Addison

  Crush, Easter, Stars

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.288

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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

  Funny, Motivation, Vision

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• Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

  William Wordsworth

  I Love You, Marriage, Valentines Day

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• The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Time

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• Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

  Jean Paul

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Time

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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

  Funny, Memories, Humorous

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

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• Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Years, Desire

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.817, Delphi Classics

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• It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Lovely, Forget The Past, Funny Birthday

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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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

  Funny, Meaningful, Age

  "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

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

  Voltaire

  Resurrection, Rebirth, Reincarnation

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• To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

  Bernard Baruch

  Years, Age, Literature

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• My life is better with every year of living it.

  Rachel Maddow

  Years, Life Is

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• My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Growing Up, Age And Youth, Criminal Mind

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.113, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

  Alexander Pope

  Grateful, Mind, Looks

  Alexander Pope (1787). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope with His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements,3: From the Text of Dr. Warburton with Life of the Author”, p.154

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• If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

  Euripides

  Mistake, Knowledge, Aging

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• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Men, Player

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.

  Billy Mills

  Inspirational, Life, Middle School

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• A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

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• It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Getting Older, Firsts

  "Mark Twain's Letters".

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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

  House, Police, Twenties

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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

  Beautiful, Wise, Age

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• You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Witty, Giving Up

  "Fictional character: Pearl". "Interiors", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Age, Criminals

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.19, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Life, Hilarious

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