Birthdays would be excellent institutions were it only for the pleasant little inflation they bring.
Mary Wright Sewell

Age is a matter of feeling, not of year.
-George William Curtis

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
– Booth Tarkington

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas B. Aldrich

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
Mark Twain

Do not grow old,
No matter how long you live.
Never cease to stand like curious
children before the
Great mystery into which we were born.
Albert Einstein

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson

May you live all the days of your life.
-Jonathan Swift

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
William Shakespeare

Count your years,
make your years count.
George Meredith

We are always the same age inside
–Gertrude Stein

They're not gray hairs. They're wisdom highlights.
Seneca Wright

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

Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires
- Goethe

"And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years"
– Abraham Lincoln

This is my birthday, and a happier one
Was never mine...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

So mayst thou live, dear! many years,
In all the bliss that life endears,...
Thomas Hood

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
Marcus Aurelius

I just want to celebrate another day of livin’ I just want to celebrate another day of life.
– Rare Earth

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
Kin Hubbard

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn’t have one.
So I got a cake.
Mitch Hedberg

Let them eat cake.
Marie Antoinette

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

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler-quieter, warmer.
Dag Hammarskjold

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others can not keep it from themselves.
–Sir James Barrie

A friend is, as it were, a second self.
–Cicero

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
– By Euripedes

May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.
- Irish Blessing

How far that little candle throws his beams!
William Shakespeare, playwright

May you live to be a hundred years
With one extra year to repent.
George Wilson

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
William Butler Yeats

Forty is the old age of youth; 50 is the youth of old age.
French Proverb

Birthdays! What music in the world! In these unresting times, when nothing intellectual, economic, social, political, seems stable; when customs and traditions hoary with age are mixed with explosive elements, this oldest of institutions is not in danger of yielding to destructive forces.
J.R. Macduff

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts.
William Shakespeare

Life is too short to be small.
Benjamin Disraeli

Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.
-Lucy Larcom

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
Carl Gustav Jung

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.
Kahlil Gibran

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.
George Bernard Shaw

Happy Birthday! You're now living proof of the old saying that Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Kin Hubbard

An old young man will be a young old man.
Benjamin Franklin

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
- William Shakespeare

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
Benjamin Franklin

Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
Plato

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
Ovid

And send him many years of sunshine days!
William Shakespeare

"May you receive many gifts, and may your day be joyous, and best of all may you be surrounded by family and friends. May all you wish for come true."
-Theodore W. Higginsworth

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.
William Shakespeare

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift

At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
- George Orwell

A man of 60 has spent 20 years in bed and over three years in eating.
- Arnold Bennett

Everything I know I learned after I was 30.
Georges Clemenceau

My Birthday! What a different sound that word had in my youthful ear.
- Thomas Moore

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wings of time."
Jean Paul Richter

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
- Don Marquis

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

May ev'ry birthday sweetly bring,
A thousand proofs of love;
A pure and perfect crystal spring
Of bliss from Heav'n above!
George Wells

There will be many loving thoughts hovering around you like Angels today.
J.R. Macduff

"May the Lord keep you in His hand and never close His fist too tight.
May your pockets be heavy, your heart be light,"
- An Irish Blessing

I am long on ideas, but short on time.
I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
-Thomas Edison

[H]e's younger every birthday than he was the year before.
Charles Dickens

Behind you now is yesterday; let your experience and knowledge pave the way. Here's to you and to your success, we know you will give it your best.
Theodore W. Higginsworth

Life is momentous,—never more so than when the Birthday chimes are ringing their new peals.
Wigram

The first fact about the celebration of birthdays is that it is a good way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.
G.K. Chesterton

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
-Oscar Wilde

Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII

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.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
–Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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.
- Samuel Johnsonl

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

A gift with a kind countenance is a double present.
- Thomas Fuller

A gift consists not in what is done or given but in the intention of the giver or doer.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A great deal alike forever linked but they're also quite distinct.
-Jean Paul Richte

Neither fire nor wind birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
- Lord Buddha

Thirty-five is a very attractive age London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.
-Oscar Wilde

One of the signs and signs and symptoms of passing youth might be the birth of a sense of fellowship together with others after we take our place incorporated within this.
-Virginia Woolf

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
-Virginia Woolf

I eat cake because It's somebody's birthday somewhere.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- George Bernard Shaw

Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.
Walt Disney

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
– By Daniel Francois Esprit Auber

Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
– By Robert Southey

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
– By Herbert Asquith

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
– By Mark Twain

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.
- Samuel Johnson

It takes a long time to grow young.
- Pablo Picasso

"Love the giver more than the gift."
- Brigham Young

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
-Plautus

You make every morning special. Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
-Emily Dickinson

Love is the beauty of the soul.
-Saint Augustine

Love is being stupid together.
-Paul Valery

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
-Oscar Wilde

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
-A. A. Milne

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
-Brian Tracy

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
- Samuel Lover

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
- Aphra Behn

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.
Our times are in his hand who saith,
'A whole I planned, youth shows but half;
Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
- Robert Browning

Your birthday is my pleasure. You are my sweetest treasure.
Danny Demeersseman

No language can express the power and beauty & heroism of a Mother's love.
- Edwin Chapin

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
Happy Birthday Mom
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
Happy Birthday Mom
- DeWitt Talmage

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
Happy Birthday Mom
- Abraham Lincoln

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.
Happy Birthday Mom
- Abraham Lincoln

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
- Jewish Proverb

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

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.
Albert Schweitezer

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
William Shakespeare

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.
Rudyard Kipling

Age may wrinkle the face, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Danish Proverb

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Bishop Richard Cumberland

Let us never know what old age is.
Let us know the happiness time brings,
not count the years
Ausonius

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

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

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Pierre Cornielle

A man over nintey is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde

Live as if you were to die tomorrow,
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
William Dean Howells

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose,
not closing up like a cabbage.
-John Andrew Holmes