Birthday Wishes and Status Messages - Page 33

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

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

It takes a long time to grow young.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone,
And that has twenty-eight days clear
And twenty-nine in each leap year.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Life begins at forty.

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

PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

'Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's incln'd.

Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Sing a song of Birthdays
Full of fun and cheer
And may you keep on having them
For many a happy year.

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up...a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Sugar in the gourd and honey in the horn,
I never was so happy since the hour I was born.

Middle Age: When you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Here's a posy of flowers, and a basket too,
With Birthday greetings all for you.

My Birthday! what a difference sound
That word had in my youthful ears;
And how each time the day comes round,
Less and less white its mark appears.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

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

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

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.