*~* Best Birthday Quotes *~* Hey,Hey,Paula

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings. ~ Cliff Fadiman

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

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. ~ Erich Fromm

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

Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity? ~ William Shakespeare

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition! ~ Cicero

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. ~ Arnold Palmer

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

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

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

There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~ John Glenn

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~ Dorothea Kent

Age is a number and mine is unlisted. ~ Anonymous

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

Old age is always 15 years older than I am. ~ Bernard Baruch

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives. ~ Maurice Chevalier

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud. ~ William Blake

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

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ~ Abraham Sutzkever

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