Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

birthday

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. 17 other quotes from John Burroughs

The only thing better than singing is more singing. 2 views from Ella Fitzgerald

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. 4 more thoughts from Ellen Glasgow

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same. 14 other views from Audrey Hepburn

Being seventy is not a sin. 14 other thoughts from Golda Meir

Love the giver more than the gift. 5 views from Brigham Young

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. 2 quotes from Mary Antin

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? 9 quotes from Satchel Paige

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. 5 wisdom & wit from Robert Staughton Lynd

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. 63 sayings from Samuel Johnson

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. 30 other wisdom & wit from Eleanor Roosevelt

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. 78 thoughts from Voltaire

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed. 12 other thoughts from Gene Tierney

Let them eat cake. 2 views from Marie Antoinette

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. 25 views from C. S. Lewis

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. 7 thoughts from Lewis Carroll

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? 2 wisdom & wit from John Heywood

I hate birthdays. 5 sayings from Zane Grey

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. 45 wisdom & wit from Thomas Fuller

New Year's Day is every man's birthday. 10 quotes from Charles Lamb

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. 33 more thoughts from Erma Bombeck

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. 18 views from Jean Paul

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. 5 other thoughts from Jim Valvano

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. 50 sayings from Robert Frost