Birthday Greetings - Page 27

We know we''re getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of 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.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

A well adjusted woman is one who not only knows what she wants for her birthday, but even knows what she''s going to exchange it for.

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.

I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.

You''re not 40, you''re eighteen with 22 years experience.

I''m sixty years of age. That''s 16 Celsius.

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Here''s a birthday spanking, Sent you on a card, One, Two, Three, Put them right on hard, Four, Five, Six One to live on, one to grow on, One to make you fat.

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.

“I''m lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth''s last love. I will take life''s final offering, I will take the last human blessing.”

“We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it”

“I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it''s often the same message: They hope it''s my last.”

“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”

“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection”

to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we areto the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.”

“Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we''ve grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it''s not

“Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday.”

“Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.”

“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”

“How many observe Christ''s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ''tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.”

“Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.”

“Birthday Bring Along A truly wonderful chance to leave aside every care and simply enjoy. Have An Extra - Special Birthday.”

“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”

“all of us are joining in to say, that May the year which your birthday begins, brings all the special things, that mean the most to you!”

“The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.”

“Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.”

“Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.”

“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”

“Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we''ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.”

“Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.”

“May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.”

“Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you''ve had, and what you''ve learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you''ve celebrated.”

“If there''s something that you''re dreaming of then may it all come true, because you deserve it all...HAPPY BIRTHDAY.”

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

“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”

“Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of ''you'' to the world.”

“It takes a long time to grow young.”

“The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.”

“And in the end, it''s not the years in your life that count. It''s the life in your years.”

Or hast thou known the worl so long in vain?

Is this the all observing age could gain?

Their grey experience o''er thy hoary head?

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.