Birthday Wishes and Status Messages - Page 32

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished a how much he had learned in seven years.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see yourself acting like you parents.

You'd scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage,
And if I chance to fall below
Demosthenes or Cicero,
Don't view me with a critic's eye,
But pass my imperfections by.
Large streams from little fountains flow,
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Never look a gift horse in the moouth!

God loveth a cheerful giver.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

The secret to eternal youth is arrested development.

The secret anniversaries of the heart.

A man over nintey is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.

"I mean, what is an un-birthday present?"
"A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course."
Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last.
"You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?"
"Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice.
"And how many birthdays have you?"
"One."

If you want to be happy, be.

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing,...

My heart is like a singing bird...
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.

How far that little candle throws his beams!

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Keep true to the dream of thy youth.

I remember, I remember
The roses, red and white,
The violets, and the lily-cups,
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs, where the robin built,
And where my brother set
The laburmum on his birthday,-
The tree is living yet.

I want to be an artist
To paint pictures just for you,
So when each birthday comes around,
I can send you quite a few.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.