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 other thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from Voltaire

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

Let them eat cake. 2 sayings from Marie Antoinette

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

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. 45 quotes 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 views from Zane Grey

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. 33 other thoughts 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 views from Jim Valvano

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

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

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

The only thing better than singing is more singing. 2 other quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Audrey Hepburn

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

Love the giver more than the gift. 5 thoughts 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 other views from Mary Antin

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? 9 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 quotes 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 thoughts 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 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt