Birthday Greetings - Page 33

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

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.

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

We are always the same age inside.

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

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

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

One to-day is worth two to-morrows.

Make hay while the sun shines.

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

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

All my possessions for one moment of time.

After all, tomorrow is another day.

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.

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.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

God loveth a cheerful giver.

Never look a gift horse in the moouth!

The secret anniversaries of the heart.

If you want to be happy, be.

How far that little candle throws his beams!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

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.

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.

Keep true to the dream of thy youth.

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

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

"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."

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

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,...

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

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.

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

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.

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

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.