Birthday Greetings - Page 31

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

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow.

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

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

We grow too soon old and too late smart.

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

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

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is the work of art.

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Just remember, once you''re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty eight and forty.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything

Each ten years of a man''s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Youth has no age.

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you''ll grow out of it.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.

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

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

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

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.