Lucille Ball
Actress, Comedian
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
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Happy Birthday
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Robert Frost
Poet
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
George Harrison
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."
Chili Davis
Professional Athlete
"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."
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"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
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"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything."
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"If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."
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"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."
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"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine."
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"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."
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"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
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"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."
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"From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye."
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"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."
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"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
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"Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last."
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"I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'"
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"Time flies when you are having fun."
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"Learn to be calm and you will always be happy."
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"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
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"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
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"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."
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