Birthday Wishes and Status Messages - Page 28

Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

It''s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.

If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

We grow too soon old and too late smart.

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

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

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

To me, old age is always ten years older than I am.

We are all born naked and screaming and if you''re lucky that sort of thing won''t stop there.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find it myself.

There are days of oldness, and then one gets young again.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, ‘cause men like women who got some sense.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

Nobility is not a birthright. It is defined by one''s actions.

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

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.

Death and taxes and childbirth! There''s never any convenient time for any of them.

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend.

Be kind to your kids, they''ll be choosing your nursing home.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

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

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

Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow.