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 more wisdom & wit from John Burroughs

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

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

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

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

Love the giver more than the gift. 5 sayings 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 other 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 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 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

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

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

Let them eat cake. 2 quotes 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 sayings 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 more thoughts from Lewis Carroll

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

I hate birthdays. 5 other wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Charles Lamb

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

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

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

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