Quotations for Birthdays II

We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown


There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn


A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown


Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear...
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
~Martial


Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson


Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis


Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990


Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing


Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw


The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright


When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain


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


They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown


We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881


Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis