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Consider this on your birthday You've got life's struggle beaten For 60 years you've ate And avoided being eaten

Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Don't be pessimistic Because, today, the sun hasn't shone It probably won't next year And you'll then be 61

Don't think of 60 as ten years older than 50. Think of it as only 1 year older than 59 Go ahead, as it's your birthday Delusion, today, is just fine

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

During our journey there were two occasions that we celebrated by honoring someone's talent. Everyone is recognized by a special party, but it has nothing to do with age or birthdate - it is in recognition of uniqueness and contribution to life. They believe that the purpose for the passage of time is to allow a person to become better, wiser, to express more and more of one's beingness. So if you are a better person this year than last, and only you know that for certain, then you call for a party. When you say you are ready, everyone honors that.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

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

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.

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

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like "Blue Kentucky Girl," by Emmylou Harris, and "Off the Wall," by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's "Purple Rain" - it just can't be done!

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.