Birthday quotes
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"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."
"I'm sorry to inform you that your 50 year warranty has expired on your back, knees, and memory. Luckily your lifetime warranty on your heart is still in effect. Of course, that becomes void and expires when you do."
"I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity."
"Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed."
"I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get."
"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."
"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 my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing."
"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
"If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people."
"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
"One man in his time plays many parts."
"Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!"
"When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all."
"I'm not afraid of aging."
"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."
"There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within."
"At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable."
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
"This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age."
