Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

birthday

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 more wisdom & wit from C. S. Lewis

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. 78 other wisdom & wit from Voltaire

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed. 12 more wisdom & wit from Gene Tierney

Let them eat cake. 2 quotes from Marie Antoinette

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? 2 sayings from John Heywood

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

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

I hate birthdays. 5 thoughts from Zane Grey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Being seventy is not a sin. 14 other wisdom & wit from Golda Meir

Love the giver more than the gift. 5 quotes 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 more sayings 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 more views 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Eleanor Roosevelt