Birthday Wishes and Status Messages - Page 31

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh yourself.

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

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.

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

All my possessions for one moment of time.

You take all the experience and judgement of men over fifty out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.

Born on Monday,
Fair in face;
Born on Tuesday,
Full of God's grace;
Born on Wednesday,
Sour and sad;
Born on Thursday,
Merry and glad;
Born on Friday,
Worthily given;
Born on Saturday,
Work hard for your living;
Born on Sunday,
You will never know want.

We are always the same age inside.

Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

After all, tomorrow is another day.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn by ourselves, from a book.

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

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler-quieter, warmer.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

One to-day is worth two to-morrows.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eye'd,
Such seems your beauty still.

Make hay while the sun shines.