Birthday Quotes

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

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
Author Unknown

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

Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth.
Ralph Parlette

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we
need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler

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

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

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Gandhi

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

Call this an unfair generalization if you must, but old people are no good at everything.
Moe, from the Simpsons

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

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey

Looking fifty is great--if you're sixty.
Joan Rivers

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you
are a vegetarian.
Shari R. Barr

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

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
Pablo Picasso

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way,
something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would
begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Alfred D. Souza

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and
that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...
Isak Dinesen