Birthday Quotes
Birthday Quote of the day
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
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.
Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime.
Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one.
Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
